louse

虱 character breakdown

Character component without intrinsic meaning

The stroke and how it appears in other characters remind me of an anchor.
variant of 虺, snake
variant of 蟲|虫: insect, bug / creature, animal / insect infestation / person who indulges in something / a surname

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a slug. Chantal Chicken (chu) is using a banana (丿) to attract and eat slugs (䖝) and mosquitoes (虫) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).

Characters with 虱 as component

虱 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 虱

louse (Pediculus humanus)
tick (zoology)
lit. covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore; up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
catfish (family Clariidae)
milkfish (Chanos chanos)
many fleas, but unconcerned (idiom); no point in worrying about one debt when one has so many others / Troubles never come singly. / It never rains but it pours.
tick / bedbug

Sentences with 虱

虱 currently does not appear in any sentence.