jiǎn
cocoon
A silk 糹 cocoon 冂 spun by a worm 虫
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 繭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
cocoon | ||
also 老趼 | ||
hoist by his own petard | ||
also 趼子 | ||
silkworm cocoon |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤ[e][n]ʔ | kenX | jiǎn | cocoon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6498% of movies
3211th most common character in movies
3608th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E6D |
Shuowen | “繭，蠶衣也。从系，从虫，黹省。絸，古文繭，从系、見。” |
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