Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) 蚰 Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 1079, Entry 15 Pronounced you. Pronounced you. Pronounced you. Jade Chapter (Yupian): Refers to the house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata). Notes and Commentaries on the Erya (Erya zhushu): This insect resembles a centipede, is yellow in color and slender, and is known as the tongue-protruding insect. According to the Regional Dialects (Fangyan): The house centipede is known as yin in regions east of Hangu Pass, or as ear-entering, or as, or as fuyu in the Zhao and Wei regions, as ni in the northern Yan region, and as qiong among the people of Jiangdong; these all refer to the modern house centipede, an insect that likes to crawl into ears. Materia Medica (Bencao): The house centipede is over an inch long and curls into a ring when it dies. Wang Yi, Nine Longings (Jiusi): There are house centipedes in the alley. Also pronounced chu. Commentaries on the Erya (Erya shu): The insect known as the wall spider, commonly called the horse millipede. Regional Dialects (Fangyan) states: The horse millipede, the larger of which is known as the horse house centipede. Here, the character is pronounced as zhu.