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Hanzi Character Search: 蚕

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蚕
silkworms
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 4 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading cán tiǎn Cantonese reading caam4 tim5
Japanese on reading san ten Japanese kun reading kaiko
Korean reading chen cam Vietnamese reading tằm
Traditional Variant(s) silkworms
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ cán ]    silkworm
   [ cán cóng ]    Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture
   [ cán ]    silkworm eggs
   [ cán baǒ baǒ ]    silkworm
   [ cán shān ]    silkworm nest (bundle of straw etc provided for silkworm to spin their cocoons)
   [ cán shā ]    silkworm guano (excrement)
   [ cán mián ]    a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
   [ cán zhǒng ]    silkworm eggs
   [ cán ]    tray of straw for raising silkworms, fig. sericulture
   [ cán zhǐ ]    paper on which silkworm lays its eggs
   [ cán ]    natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
   [ cán jiǎn ]    silkworm cocoon
   [ cán jiǎn zhǐ ]    paper made from silkworm cocoons
   [ cán caì ]    Malabar spinach, Basella alba
   [ cán ]    silkworm nest (bundle of straw etc provided for silkworm to spin their cocoons)
   [ cán ]    variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2]
   [ cán yǒng ]    silkworm chrysalis, pupa
   [ cán é ]    Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
   [ cán ]    newly hatched silkworm
   [ cán doù ]    broad bean (Vicia faba), fava bean
   [ cán doù zhèng ]    G6PD deficiency
   [ cán nóng ]    sericulturist
   [ cán shí ]    (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at
   [ cán shí jīng tūn ]    lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom), fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale
⇒    [ jiā cán ]    the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)
⇒    [ chūn cán ]    Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4]
⇒    [ zhè cán ]    silkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘[zhe4] tree
⇒    [ sāng cán ]    silkworm
⇒    [ shā cán ]    genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
⇒    [ baí jiāng cán ]    the larva of silkworm with batrytis
⇒    [ cán ]    plump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature)
⇒    [ caǒ shí cán ]    Chinese artichoke, Stachys sieboldii
⇒    [ yǎng cán ]    to raise silkworms
⇒    [ yǎng cán ]    silk industry

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