to rub against / to walk slowly / (coll.) to freeload

蹭 character breakdown

surname Zeng
once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause)

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: I think 曾 just looks like a firefly, with the head (with two feelers) at the top and the glowing body at the bottom.

The firefly is selling aloe vera out of a big wooden box in the kitchen of the Erechtheion. With a big microphone it is advertising the aloe. As it sees a mean crocodile and the King of Chu starting a big fight for the aloe, the firefly is very excited and states that it has never ever seen something like this before.
great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)
excessive
foot / to be sufficient / ample

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.

Characters with 蹭 as component

蹭 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 蹭

to rub lightly / to move slowly / to dawdle / to dillydally / to pester / to nag
to dillydally / slow-going
to freeload for food
(coll.) (often derog.) to piggyback on (sb's) popularity / to exploit (sb's) popularity to attract attention to oneself
(coll.) to use sb else's Internet connection (with or without permission)
(coll.) to sit in on a class
to have bad luck / dammit!
(coll.) to ride in sb else's car to save money / to ride on a train or bus without buying a ticket (fare-dodging)
to scrape one's car against sth / to sideswipe

Sentences with 蹭

蹭 currently does not appear in any sentence.