Where does this extra stroke come from in the kanji for cicada?
Where does this extra stroke come from in the kanji for cicada?
I'm wondering where this extra stroke came from in the kanji for cicada that I have highlighted and would like an explanation since it doesn't match up with the kanji radicals on kanshudo
@x4740N It looks normal to me? In general, 虫 means bug/insect. According to Wiktionary, it originally derived from an ancient Chinese snake glyph: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%99%AB
I didn't know about the etymology before, but it makes sense (given that 蛇 means "snake").
According to the Radicals for 虫 the stroke that I've highlighted doesn't come from them so I'm wondering what it is there for since the only Radicals for it are "丶" and "中"
from what i know, the kanji for "insect" is a fundamental radical itself, but if you really want a mnemotechnic, i'd say that 口 is the insect mouth biting an arm ム (not the real meaning of that but it kinda looks like an arm)
based on this list
