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Meaning of 蠹

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Pinyin:
English Definition: insect that eats into books, clothing etc; moth-eaten; worm-eaten
Chinese Definition:
①蛀蚀器物的虫子:蠹虫。木蠹。书蠹。蠹鱼。
②蛀蚀:流水不腐,户枢不蠹。蠹蛀。蠹害。蠹弊(弊病,弊端)。
Total strokes: 24; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (insect) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ tuó ] bag, sack; a hollow tub open at both ends
    • Left to right
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Example Words
蠹虫 chóng moth; harmful person; vermin
户枢不蠹 shū lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten; constant activity prevents decay (idiom)
蠹鱼 silverfish; Classifiers:
杀蠹药 shā yào mothicide
苹果蠹蛾 píng guǒ é codling moth; codlin moth
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Example Sentences
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The traitor in strait straight forwardly told me the traits of the bait.
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So in the doughtier area such as ridge area, Tomicus attacks more serious.
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The result shows that the dominating insect pests in the burned forests in Daxing'anling and Heihe regions are Anoplophora spp. and lps spp.
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Recently there was news that a shopper at a market in northern Germany found small amounts of groundsel in bags of mixed salad.
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The indoor experiment results predicted a prosperous future for controlling seabuckthorn carpenter with nematodes and fungi.