| 蠶 | [ cán ] silkworm |
| 蠶叢 | [ cán cóng ] Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture |
| 蠶子 | [ cán zǐ ] silkworm eggs |
| 蠶寶寶 | [ cán baǒ baǒ ] silkworm |
| 蠶山 | [ cán shān ] silkworm nest (bundle of straw etc provided for silkworm to spin their cocoons) |
| 蠶沙 | [ cán shā ] silkworm guano (excrement) |
| 蠶眠 | [ cán mián ] a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting |
| 蠶種 | [ cán zhǒng ] silkworm eggs |
| 蠶箔 | [ cán bó ] tray of straw for raising silkworms, fig. sericulture |
| 蠶紙 | [ cán zhǐ ] paper on which silkworm lays its eggs |
| 蠶絲 | [ cán sī ] natural silk (secreted by silkworm) |
| 蠶繭 | [ cán jiǎn ] silkworm cocoon |
| 蠶繭紙 | [ cán jiǎn zhǐ ] paper made from silkworm cocoons |
| 蠶菜 | [ cán caì ] Malabar spinach, Basella alba |
| 蠶蔟 | [ cán cù ] silkworm nest (bundle of straw etc provided for silkworm to spin their cocoons) |
| 蠶薄 | [ cán bó ] variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2] |
| 蠶蛹 | [ cán yǒng ] silkworm chrysalis, pupa |
| 蠶蛾 | [ cán é ] Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) |
| 蠶蟻 | [ cán yǐ ] newly hatched silkworm |
| 蠶豆 | [ cán doù ] broad bean (Vicia faba), fava bean |
| 蠶豆症 | [ cán doù zhèng ] G6PD deficiency |
| 蠶農 | [ cán nóng ] sericulturist |
| 蠶食 | [ cán shí ] (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at |
| 蠶食鯨吞 | [ cán shí jīng tūn ] lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom), fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale |
| ⇒ 家蠶 | [ jiā cán ] the common silkworm (Bombyx mori) |
| ⇒ 春蠶 | [ chūn cán ] Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4] |
| ⇒ 柘蠶 | [ zhè cán ] silkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘[zhe4] tree |
| ⇒ 桑蠶 | [ sāng cán ] silkworm |
| ⇒ 沙蠶 | [ shā cán ] genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm |
| ⇒ 白殭蠶 | [ baí jiāng cán ] the larva of silkworm with batrytis |
| ⇒ 臥蠶 | [ wò cán ] plump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature) |
| ⇒ 草石蠶 | [ caǒ shí cán ] Chinese artichoke, Stachys sieboldii |
| ⇒ 養蠶 | [ yǎng cán ] to raise silkworms |
| ⇒ 養蠶業 | [ yǎng cán yè ] silk industry |