Kanji Detail for 蠡 - "erode, gourd, whelk"

蠡

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
蠡 means "erode, gourd, whelk."
1. Erode - For insects to eat away.
2. Gourd - A calabash.
3. Whelk - A conch; a type of gastropod.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

worm-eaten; conch

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

wood-boring insect; bore into wood

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

calabash

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

termite; to bore

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

A wood-boring insect. Mencius says "To chase the wood-borer." | A gourd ladle. Such as saying 管窺蠡測 (viewing through a tube and measuring with a gourd). Meaning narrow-minded and shallow. From the "Book of Han." | 瘯蠡. A skin disease of livestock. Appears in Zuo Zhuan.
Onyomi

rai(らい)

rei(れい)

ri(り)
Kunyomi

hisago(ひさご)

nina(にな)
Strokes

21 strokes
Radical

虫 (mushi・mushihen)
Related Keywords
erode insects eat gourd calabash whelk conch type gastropod