茧
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(bound form) cocoon; (bound form) callus (variant of 趼[jian3])
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Dict coverage rank #2,951 U+8327
How 茧 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A silk cocoon 艹 spun by a worm 虫
How to remember it
cocoon · Heisig RSH #1743
flower + 虫 insect
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 茧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信息茧房 | xìn xī jiǎn fáng | (Internet) echo chamber; filter bubble |
| 破茧成蝶 | pò jiǎn chéng dié | lit. to break through a cocoon and turn into a butterfly (idiom); fig. to emerge strong af… |
| 作茧自缚 | zuò jiǎn zì fù | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist b… |
| 茧子 | jiǎn zi | callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 趼子 |
| 老茧 | lǎo jiǎn | callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 老趼 |
| 重茧 | chóng jiǎn | thick callus; (literary) thick silkwaste padded clothes |
| 作茧 | zuò jiǎn | to make a cocoon |
| 造茧自缚 | zào jiǎn zì fù | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist w… |
| 抽丝剥茧 | chōu sī bō jiǎn | (lit.) to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom); (fig.) to unravel a mystery; to … |
| 蚕茧纸 | cán jiǎn zhǐ | paper made from silkworm cocoons |
| 蚕茧 | cán jiǎn | silkworm cocoon |