蝉蟬 in English

How it used to be written

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

• Small seal script
• Clerical script
• See all 3 forms

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

Examples

• 蝉破土而出后，会蜕皮，等待身体乾燥变硬，然后飞到树顶觅食和寻找配偶，它们通过发出响亮的蝉鸣来寻找配偶。

  Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.

All example sentences with 蝉