Kanji Detail for 蜒 - "slithering, slug, gecko, house centipede"

蜒

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
蜒 means "slithering, slug, gecko, house centipede."
1. Slithering - For a snake or similar creature to undulate.
2. Slug - A shell-less gastropod (used in compound 蜒蚰).
3. Gecko - A lizard (used in compound 祝蜒).
4. House centipede - An arthropod (used in compound 蚰蜒).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

meandering; serpentine

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

millipede

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

slug; used in 蜿蜒[wan1 yan2]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

millipede

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

蜒蚰 (slug). A mollusk. Lives in warm, damp, dark places. Resembles a snail but without a shell. | 蚰蜓 (house centipede). See "蚰" for details.
Onyomi

en(えん)

tan(たん)
Kunyomi
none
Strokes

13 strokes
Radical

虫 (mushi・mushihen)
Related Keywords
slithering snake similar creature undulate slug shell less gastropod gecko lizard house centipede arthropod