茧
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(bound form) cocoon; (bound form) callus (variant of 趼[jian3])
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艸 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 繭
- Common rank
- #2,951
- Unicode
- U+8327
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
cocoon · Heisig RSH #1743
flower + 虫 insect
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 茧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信息茧房 | (Internet) echo chamber; filter bubble | |
| 破茧成蝶 | lit. to break through a cocoon and turn into a butterfly (idiom); fig. to emerge strong af… | |
| 作茧自缚 | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist b… | |
| 茧子 | callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 趼子 | |
| 老茧 | callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 老趼 | |
| 重茧 | thick callus; (literary) thick silkwaste padded clothes | |
| 作茧 | to make a cocoon | |
| 造茧自缚 | to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist w… | |
| 抽丝剥茧 | (lit.) to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom); (fig.) to unravel a mystery; to … | |
| 蚕茧纸 | paper made from silkworm cocoons | |
| 蚕茧 | silkworm cocoon |