蚀 = in the seal script, it consists of three parts, 虫 worm or insect, 食 food utensil, and 人. The character in seal script depicts a worm eats into a man’s food. Continue reading “蚀 insects eat into a man’s things”
Tag: 虫
Component insect, worm, bug 虫
虫, insect, worm, bug, serves as semantic component/radical to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component insect has three structures: semanic left – phonetic right, semi-enclosed, phonetic up-semantic down. Continue reading “Component insect, worm, bug 虫”