variant of 蟲|虫: insect, bug / creature, animal / insect infestation / person who indulges in something / a surname
䖝
=
丿
+
虫
:
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.
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)
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.