蚕
silkworm
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How 蚕 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
虫 (semantic, “insect”) + 天 (phonetic, tiān)
How to remember it
silkworm · Heisig RSH #1744
天 heavens + 虫 insect
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 天
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 天 (tiān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天 sound component | tiān | sky, heaven; god, celestial |
| 吞 | tūn | to absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow |
| 忝 | tiǎn | shame, disgrace; self-depreciation |
Words containing 蚕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草石蚕 | cǎo shí cán | Chinese artichoke; Stachys sieboldii |
| 养蚕业 | yǎng cán yè | silk industry |
| 蚕豆症 | cán dòu zhèng | G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency) |
| 蚕宝宝 | cán bǎo bǎo | silkworm |
| 蚕子 | cán zǐ | silkworm eggs |
| 蚕山 | cán shān | see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟[can2 cu4] |
| 家蚕 | jiā cán | the common silkworm (Bombyx mori) |
| 沙蚕 | shā cán | genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm |
| 蚕沙 | cán shā | silkworm guano (excrement) |
| 蚕食 | cán shí | (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at |
| 蚕菜 | cán cài | Malabar spinach (Basella alba) |
| 春蚕 | Chūn cán | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on nove… |
| 蚕豆 | cán dòu | broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean |
| 养蚕 | yǎng cán | to raise silkworms |
| 桑蚕丝 | sāng cán sī | silk (specifically, mulberry silk) |
| 蚕种 | cán zhǒng | silkworm eggs |
| 蚕丝 | cán sī | natural silk (secreted by silkworm) |
| 蚕纸 | cán zhǐ | paper on which silkworm lays its eggs |
| 蚕农 | cán nóng | sericulturist |
| 蚕薄 | cán bó | variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2] |