虱

louse

Character component without intrinsic meaning

variant of 虺, snake

variant of 蟲|虫: insect, bug / creature, animal / insect infestation / person who indulges in something / a surname

louse (Pediculus humanus)

head lice

tick (zoology)

woodlouse

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