沙蟲

Chinese

		granule; hoarse; raspy granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; tsar	animal; insect
trad. (沙蟲)		沙	蟲
simp. (沙虫)		沙	虫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāchóng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄔㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹ cung^4-2 / saa¹ cung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāchóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄔㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shachóng
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-chʻung²
    • Yale: shā-chúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shachorng
    • Palladius: шачун (šačun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saa¹ cung^4-2 / saa¹ cung⁴
    • Yale: sā chúng / sā chùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saa¹ tsung^4-2 / saa¹ tsung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sa¹ cung^4-2 / sa¹ cung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saː⁵⁵ t͡sʰʊŋ²¹⁻³⁵/, /saː⁵⁵ t͡sʰʊŋ²¹/

Noun

沙蟲

1. sandworm; ragworm (worms in the genus Nereis)
2. peanut worm (Sipunculus nudus)
3. (Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Pinghua) mosquito larva

Synonyms

• (mosquito larva):

Dialectal synonyms of 孑孓 (“wriggler; wiggler; mosquito larva”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		蜎
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		孑孓
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	跟頭蟲兒
	Taiwan	孑孓
	Langfang	跟頭蟲兒
	Harbin	跟頭蟲兒
Jilu Mandarin	Tangshan	跟頭蟲兒
	Cangzhou	跟頭蟲
	Baoding	跟頭蟲兒
	Shijiazhuang	跟頭蟲
	Jinan	跟頭蟲, 跟頭蟲子
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	打老鬼, 孑孓
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	跟頭蟲兒, 孑孓
	Daming	跟頭蟲兒
	Wanrong	顛倒子, 水擔圪斗
	Xuzhou	孑孓, 跟頭蟲
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	跟頭蟲
	Ürümqi	跟頭蟲
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	跟斗兒蟲, 沙蟲子
	Wuhan	跟頭蟲
	Guiyang	跟斗蟲
	Guilin	孑孓
	Liuzhou	跟斗蟲
	Nanning (Wuming)	沙蟲, 孑孓
Cantonese	Guangzhou	孑孓, 沙蟲, 沙屎蟲, 蚊蟲, 紅蟲
	Hong Kong	孑孓, 沙蟲
	Kaiping (Chikan)	逕蟲
	Nanning	沙蟲
	Nanning (Tanka)	沙蟲
	Wuzhou	沙蟲
	Yulin	曲曲蛆
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	沙蟲
Gan	Pingxiang	沙蟲
Hakka	Meixian	屎蛆仔, 水蛆仔, 蛆仔
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	沙蟲
	Yudu	沙蟲子
Huizhou	Jixi	打滾蟲
Jin	Taiyuan	道跌子
	Taiyuan (Jiancaoping)	道跌子
	Pingyao	卜來來
	Xinzhou	吊孑子
	Zhangjiakou	耍錢棍兒
	Handan	跟頭蟲子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	變魚蟲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	把啷鼓墜
Southern Min	Xiamen	車蛆, 蛆
	Quanzhou	車蛆, 蛆
	Jinjiang	車蛆
	Zhangzhou	車蛆, 蛆
	Tainan	水蛆
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	末仔
	Shantou	蛆
	Jieyang	蛆, 大頭蛆
	Leizhou	蛆蟲
	Haikou	雨蟲
Puxian Min	Putian	蛆, 蛆蟲
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	蛆
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	蛆
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	蛆蟲
	Xianyou	蛆
	Xianyou (Fengting)	蛆
	Xianyou (Youyang)	蛆
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	蠓蟲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	沙蟲
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	沙蟲
Wu	Shanghai	打拳蛆
	Shanghai (Chongming)	孓襻蟲
	Suzhou	打拳蟲
	Danyang	水孑孓, 彎蟲
	Hangzhou	倒督蟲兒
	Ningbo	棲蟲
	Wenzhou	蛆蟲
	Jinhua	骨骨蟲, 各各蟲
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	糞缸蟲
Xiang	Changsha	沙蟲子
	Loudi	紅紗蟲

Derived terms

• 斬腳趾避沙蟲／斩脚趾避沙虫