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
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Does that line have to match up with the Kanji radicals?
The whole left part is a radical (むし) and its origin seems to be a visual transcription of a snake, according to Wiktionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/虫
I'm sorry, if I didn't get your question right, I'm still new to all of this.