This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

An adult male 丁 insect 虫; 丁 also provides the pronunciation

  • 虰 dragonfly dīng
    • 虫 insect, worm; mollusk chóng
    • 丁 male adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem zhēng
      • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
      • 亅 hook jué

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