The Chinese word for insect is
昆虫
kūnchóng
Translations for insect and their definitions
| 虫子 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 蟲子 |
| 蟲 | |
| 1. insect; bug | |
| 倮蟲 - creature without covering (i.e., hairless, featherless, scaleless, shellless), the category that humans belong to in Chinese folk taxonomy | |
| 爬蟲 - reptile | |
| 2. person who indulges in something | |
| 懶蟲 - lazy fellow | |
| 網蟲 - netizen | |
| 3. (obsolete, of insect) to bite; to eat | |
| 4. Alternative form of 爞 |
| 昆虫 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 昆蟲 |
| 虫 | |
| 1. Variant of 蟲 | |
| 2. Variant of 虺 |
| 昆蟲 | |
| 1. n. insect |
| 蟲子 | |
| 1. n. insect; worm; bug | |
| 我 見 過guo 的 蟲子zi 有 毛máor毛maor蟲chóngr、蚯蚓、西瓜蟲chóngr、蜘蛛、蜈蚣gong，還有 螞蟻。 - The insects and worms I have seen are caterpillar, earthworm, pill bug, spider, centipede and ant., M-UIB |
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