I’m wondering where this extra stroke came from in the kanji for cicada that I have highlighted and would like an explanation since it doesn’t match up with the kanji radicals on kanshudo

https://www.kanshudo.com/word/蝉/1387080?oq=蝉

  • moreeni@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Does that line have to match up with the Kanji radicals?

    The whole left part is a radical (むし) and its origin seems to be a visual transcription of a snake, according to Wiktionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/虫

    I’m sorry, if I didn’t get your question right, I’m still new to all of this.