The Story of Chinese Character :蟲

蟲 is composed of three 虫, since insects always appear in groups, while three means many in ancient China. Both 蟲 and 虫 share the same pronunciation and meaning.

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[choumeizai]

@jasneskis

Actually, both simplified and traditional Chinese shared the same Chinese, only very few exemption, take 虫(insect) as an example, even traditional Chinese uses 虫, while simplified Chinese won't use 蟲 to represent insect. The other example, 艸, in ancient Chinese literature, 艸 was used to represent grass instead of 草.

[jasneskis]

I really like your videos and am enjoying learning with you. I have one problem. I was starting to learn simple Chinese, your video characters are traditional and I have to search for the simple version if there is one. Is there any way you could add the simple pinyin character along with the traditional Chinese Character you now present? I know some of the characters are the same, simple and traditional.  This character insects is not.