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蚊 (wén) is a noun for the mosquito, a common blood-sucking flying insect and a widespread nuisance. It is formed as a phono-semantic compound, with the semantic element 虫 (chóng) on the left , the radical used for insects, worms, and various crawling creatures , and the phonetic element 文 (wén) on the right. The right-side component 文 typically stands for 'writing', 'culture', or 'pattern', but in this character it serves strictly to indicate the pronunciation; some scholars, however, have observed that the character may also evoke the mosquito's patterned wing veins. 蚊 is the simplified version of the earlier form 螡, and it has remained the unchallenged standard term for this ubiquitous pest throughout the written history of Chinese, from classical to modern times.
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夏天有很多蚊子。
蚊子会叮人。
我晚上被蚊子咬了。
蚊子可能传播登革热。
使用蚊帐能避免被叮。
点蚊香可以驱蚊。
蚊子的幼虫生活在水中。
科学家研究如何消灭蚊子。
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