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蛹

yǒng

Character

What 蛹 means

1. chrysalis
2. pupa

Example sentences

• 昆虫破蛹而出变成成虫。
  Kūnchóng pòyǒng ér chū biànchéng chéngchóng.
  The insect grew out of a pupa into an imago.

Words containing 蛹

• 化蛹huà yǒngto pupate; to turn into a chrysalis
• 成蛹chéng yǒngto pupate; to become a chrysalis
• 破蛹pò yǒngto emerge from a pupa (of a butterfly etc)
• 蚕蛹cán yǒngsilkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa

Characters built on 甬

These share the phonetic component 甬 (yǒng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 勇yǒngbrave
• 桶tǒngbucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc)
• 涌yǒngto well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 诵sòngto read aloud; to recite
• 捅tǒngto poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
• 恿yǒngused in 怂恿

Characters that look like 蛹

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 蝇yíngfly; musca
• 蜴yìused in 蜥蜴
• 蜻qīngsee 蜻蜓
• 槌chuímallet; pestle; beetle (for wedging or ramming)
• 蜈wúused in 蜈蚣
• 蛞kuòused in 蛞蝼; used in 蛞蝓

Sounds the same

Read yǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 泳swimming; to swim
• 永forever; always; perpetual
• 勇brave
• 涌to well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 踊leap
• 咏to sing
• 恿used in 怂恿
• 俑wooden figures buried with the dead
• 甬path screened by walls on both sides
• 禜sacrifice
• 埇raised path
• 栐(archaic) a kind of tree whose timber was used to make ceremonial tablets 笏