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8.3 Insects & small animals
From the beginning people start forming the new words for animals, they first
categorize the animals. We can notice that the word 虫 (chóng) is part in the name for
most of the animals which can crawl, or for the invertebrates. It is because those
animals are like a worm 虫. Thus, whenever we see the word 虫 in the name of the
animals, they may be in the animal classification of insects 昆虫 (kūnchóng) .
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