cán
silkworms
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 天 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蠶.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 蚕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
silkworm | ||
fig. to embezzle progressively | ||
natural silk (secreted by silkworm) | ||
fava bean | ||
to raise silkworms |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2787th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8695 |
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