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Kanji Detail for 蠕 - "squirm"
蠕
- Meaning
蠕 means "squirm."
Squirm - To move in a wriggling, insect-like manner.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
crawling of a worm
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
to squirm, wriggle
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
variant of 蠕[ru2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
wasp; to wriggle, to squirm
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
蠕蠕. An ancient state name. A separate branch of the Xiongnu. Present-day Mongolian territory. | The appearance of slight movement. Today also refers to soft-bodied creatures like earthworms and leeches as 蠕形動物 (worm-shaped animals).
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