虫 子 chóng zi insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] 蠕 虫 rú chóng worm 蜗 杆 wō gǎn worm (mechanical engineering) 蚩 chī ignorant / worm 蜮 yù mythical creature / toad / worm 虷 gān worm 计 算 机 蠕 虫 jì suàn jī rú chóng computer worm / worm 环 节 huán jié (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc 捷 足 先 登 jié zú xiān dēng the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served 套 话 tào huà polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb 吸 虫 xī chóng trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans 蛲 虫 náo chóng parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) 蛲 náo parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) 蔟 cù collect / frame for silk worm / nest 肙 yuān a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty 穷 鼠 啮 狸 qióng shǔ niè lí a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on 尺 蠖 chǐ huò looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae / inch worm 吸 虫 纲 xī chóng gāng Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans 沙 蚕 shā cán genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm 灭 虫 宁 miè chóng nìng bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine 管 圆 线 虫 guǎn yuán xiàn chóng "eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis 粘 虫 nián chóng army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests) 蟠 尾 丝 虫 pán wěi sī chóng Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans 蟠 尾 丝 虫 症 pán wěi sī chóng zhèng "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus 复 殖 吸 虫 fù zhí xī chóng digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目) 套 近 乎 tào jìn hū to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory) 麦 地 那 龙 线 虫 Guinea worm / Dracunculus medinensis 柱 头 虫 acorn worm 麦 地 那 龙 线 虫 病 Guinea worm disease / dracunculiasis 多 毛 虫 tube worm 蜗 杆 副 wō gǎn fù worm-gear pair / worm drive / worm and worm gear 蠉 xuān wriggler / mosquito larva / to crawl / to worm along 蚛 zhòng (literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten 海 肠 子 hǎi cháng zi (coll.) marine worm resembling intestines such as the spoon worm (echiuroid) or the peanut worm (Sipunculus nudus)