Translingual

The caterpillar of the geometer moth looks like measuring its journey, hence all such names as measuring worm, geometrid, inchworm, 蚇, 尺蠖, 자벌레, etc.

Han character

蚇 (radical 142 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 中戈尸人 (LISO), four-corner 5713₇, composition ⿰虫尺)

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References

• KangXi: page 1077, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32846
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2840, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8687

Korean

Hanja

蚇 • ‎(cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheog)

1. (자벌레) inchworm, measuring worm, geometrid

Synonyms

See also

• 尺蠖蛾 (척확아, cheoghwag-a) geometrid moth

Mandarin

Hanzi

蚇 ‎(Pinyin chǐ (chi3), Wade-Giles ch'ih³)

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