虫
Primary radical
虫 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 蛀.
虫 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 蛀.
主 is recorded as the sound-side component in this pictophonetic analysis.
Each square adds one stroke in the standard writing order.
我蛀牙很多。
Wǒ zhù yá hěn duō。I have a lot of bad teeth.
termite, bookworm; to bore, to eat into
蛀 has 11 strokes. Follow the animated stroke-order sequence above, then practise it on the writing page.
虫 is the radical in 蛀. It can provide a meaning-side clue.
蛀牙 (zhùyá): tooth decay; dental caries; decayed tooth; rotten tooth.