in English

shī
louse

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 蝨, the traditional character: 虱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 蝨 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “虱子”的复数形式是“虱子们”

    The plural form of "louse" is "lice".

  • 生命是一袭华美的袍子,爬满了虱子。

    Life is a magnificent gown full of lice.

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