蚕
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silkworm
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 虫 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蚕
- Common rank
- #1,827
- Unicode
- U+8695
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Formation & memory
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Words with 蚕
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草石蚕 | Chinese artichoke; Stachys sieboldii | |
| 养蚕业 | silk industry | |
| 蚕豆症 | G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency) | |
| 蚕宝宝 | silkworm | |
| 蚕子 | silkworm eggs | |
| 蚕山 | see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟[can2 cu4] | |
| 家蚕 | the common silkworm (Bombyx mori) | |
| 沙蚕 | genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm | |
| 蚕沙 | silkworm guano (excrement) | |
| 蚕食 | (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at | |
| 蚕菜 | Malabar spinach (Basella alba) | |
| 春蚕 | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on nove… | |
| 蚕豆 | broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean | |
| 养蚕 | to raise silkworms | |
| 桑蚕丝 | silk (specifically, mulberry silk) | |
| 蚕种 | silkworm eggs | |
| 蚕丝 | natural silk (secreted by silkworm) | |
| 蚕纸 | paper on which silkworm lays its eggs | |
| 蚕农 | sericulturist | |
| 蚕薄 | variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 天 — compare how they read.