marilyn ,
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@x4740N It looks normal to me? In general, 虫 means bug/insect. According to Wiktionary, it originally derived from an ancient Chinese snake glyph: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%99%AB

I didn't know about the etymology before, but it makes sense (given that 蛇 means "snake").

x4740N OP ,
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https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/f7886339-e309-435f-9509-0ae42cc4976e.jpeg

According to the Radicals for 虫 the stroke that I've highlighted doesn't come from them so I'm wondering what it is there for since the only Radicals for it are "丶" and "中"

TheGuyTM3 ,
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from what i know, the kanji for "insect" is a fundamental radical itself, but if you really want a mnemotechnic, i'd say that 口 is the insect mouth biting an arm ム (not the real meaning of that but it kinda looks like an arm)

based on this list
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/013f9eee-0719-4fb8-97b2-d6032fd2509b.jpeg

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