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茧

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(bound form) cocoon; (bound form) callus (variant of 趼[jian3])

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How 茧 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A silk cocoon 艹 spun by a worm 虫

components: 艹 虫

How to remember it

cocoon · Heisig RSH #1743

flower + 虫 insect

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 茧

WordPinyinMeaning
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