cán
silkworms
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 蠶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
silkworm | ||
fig. to embezzle progressively | ||
natural silk (secreted by silkworm) | ||
fava bean | ||
to raise silkworms |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[dz]ˤ[ə]m | dzom | cán | silkworm |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2787th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8836 |
Shuowen | “蠶，任絲也。从，朁聲。” |
Sources
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