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Hanzi Character Search: 茧

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茧
cocoon; callus, blister
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 6 Total Strokes 12
Mandarin reading chóng jiǎn Cantonese reading gaan2 gin2
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) cocoon; callus, blister

CEDICT Entries:

   [ jiǎn ]    cocoon, callus
   [ jiǎn zi ]    callus (patch or hardened skin), corns (on feet), also 趼子
   [ jiǎn ]    variant of 繭|茧[jian3]
⇒    [ zuò jiǎn ]    to make a cocoon
⇒    [ zuò jiǎn ]    to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising, hoist by his own petard
⇒    [ xìn jiǎn fáng ]    (Internet) echo chamber, filter bubble
⇒    [ choū baō jiǎn ]    lit. to spin silk from cocoons, fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
⇒    [ jiǎn chéng dié ]    lit. to break through a cocoon and turn into a butterfly (idiom), fig. to emerge strong after a period of struggle, to get to a better place after going through difficult period
⇒    [ laǒ jiǎn ]    callus (patch or hardened skin), corns (on feet), also 老趼
⇒    [ cán jiǎn ]    silkworm cocoon
⇒    [ cán jiǎn zhǐ ]    paper made from silkworm cocoons
⇒    [ zaò jiǎn ]    to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising, hoist with his own petard

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