Kanji Detail for 蛭 - "leech"

蛭

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
蛭 means "leech."
1. Leech - An annelid of the class Hirudinea that sucks blood from animals in ponds and rice paddies.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

leech

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

leech

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

fluke; leech; hirudinea

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

leech

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A segmented worm. Also called 水蛭 (water leech). Body is yellowish-brown. Has very many ring markings. Mouth cavity has edges like saw teeth. Likes to attach to the skin of humans and livestock to suck blood. Large ones are called 馬蛭. Commonly called 馬蟥 (horse leech).
Onyomi

chitsu(ちつ)

shitsu(しつ)
Kunyomi

hi.ru(ひる)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

虫 (mushi・mushihen)
Related Keywords
leech annelid class hirudinea sucks blood animals ponds rice paddies