螺
Meanings
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- 1.spiral shell
- 2.snail
- 3.conch
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Wiktionary
- 1.aquatic snail (as opposed to a terrestrial snail, 蝸 /蜗 (wō))
- 2.whorl; swirl; spiral
- 3.fingerprint whorls
- 4.spiro-
- 5.wine cup made from a snail shell
- 6.ink; pigment (green-black in color, produced from the snail, and used by women for drawing eyebrows)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *roːl): semantic 虫 + phonetic 累 (OC *ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 蝸 (OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl, “terrestrial snail”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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Derived terms
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Related words
螺丝 screw螺线 spiral螺髻 spiral coil (in hairdressing)螺距 pitch of spiral螺栓 bolt (male component of nut and bolt)螺蛳 river snail钉螺 Oncomelania螺帽 nut (female component of nut and bolt)玉螺 moon snail (sea snail of the Naticidae family)西螺 Xiluo or Hsilo town in Yunlin county 云林县[Yún lín xiàn], Taiwan螺纹 spiral pattern螺旋 spiral