jiǎn
cocoon
A silk cocoon 艹 spun by a worm 虫
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 茧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
cocoon | ||
also 老趼 | ||
hoist by his own petard | ||
also 趼子 | ||
silkworm 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 | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8327 |
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