蟊賊

蟊贼
máozéi
  1. insect that damages cereal crop seedlings
  2. (lit. and fig.) vermin
  3. a person harmful to the country and the people

CEDICT

  1. (Classical, literally) grain-eating insect
  2. (figuratively) person harmful to the country and the people
  3. grain-eating insect
  4. person harmful to the country and the people

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 蟊 máo
  1. Spanish fly
  2. grain-eating grub
2 賊 zéi
  1. thief; robber
  2. (bound form) traitor; subversive
  3. (bound form) evil; wicked
  4. sly; shifty; devious
  5. (literary) to harm; to injure
  6. (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)

Related entries

害獸 hàishòu
  1. vermin
  2. harmful animal
敵害 díhài
  1. pest
  2. vermin
  3. animal that is harmful to crops or to another species
  4. enemy
  5. predator
蠹蟲 dùchóng
  1. moth
  2. harmful person
  3. vermin