蠖

蠖 · huò

inch-worm; looper caterpillar

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
huò
Cantonese
wok6
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

inch-worm; looper caterpillar

Dictionary definitions & readings

蠖 huò · looper caterpillar

CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
42895.100:huò,yuè Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0515.060:huò Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
152.070:huò Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
huò粵wok6 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
カク ワク Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
烏郭 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
LITOE Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
5414.7 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1101.010 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
509.23 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
0784n Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+8816
Radical
虫 · 142
Strokes
19
Residual strokes
14
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6390

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

19 strokes
蠖
Strokes
19
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

19 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
'wak · 烏郭 · 宕合一入唐影 · #3588

PHONO-ML, source line 18629; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1200.205
kDaeJaweon
1564.370
kGSR
0784n
kHanYu
42895.100
kIRGDaeJaweon
1564.370
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42895.100
kIRGKangXi
1101.010
kKangXi
1101.010
kMatthews
2208
kMeyerWempe
3782b
kMorohashi
33752:E0102
kSBGY
509.23
kSMSZD2003Index
623.05
kCangjie
LITOE
kFourCornerCode
5414.7
kMojiJoho
MJ023792 MJ023792:E0101 MJ023793:E0102
kPhonetic
1454
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kIICore
CT
kIRG_GSource
G0-7336
kIRG_HSource
HB2-F4C9
kIRG_JSource
J0-6A3F
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-72E5
kIRG_KSource
K2-5D61
kIRG_TSource
T2-6975
kRSUnicode
142.14
kTotalStrokes
19
kBigFive
F4C9
kCCCII
232C6B
kCNS1986
2-6975
kCNS1992
2-6975
kEACC
232C6B
kGB0
8322
kGB1
8322
kJis0
7431
kMainlandTelegraph
5863
kTGH
2013:6390
kTaiwanTelegraph
5863
kXerox
262:363
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6564+142.6.13
kCantonese
wok6
kDefinition
inch-worm; looper caterpillar
kFanqie
烏郭
kHanyuPinyin
42895.100:huò,yuè
kJapanese
カク ワク
kJapaneseKun
KAKURERU SHIRIZOKU
kJapaneseOn
KAKU WAKU
kMandarin
huò
kSMSZD2003Readings
huò粵wok6
kTGHZ2013
152.070:huò
kXHC1983
0515.060:huò

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
3dictionary records using 蠖0forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿰ Left / right

Shape description
虫 beside 蒦 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿰虫蒦$(GHJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰虫蒦$(GHJKP)

^⿰虫⿱卝隻$(T)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.