蚕 — Chinese character
蚕
cán
silkworm
- Pinyin
- cán
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 天 虫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 天
- Traditional
- 蠶
- Japanese
- 蚕 as a kanji
Common words with 蚕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蚕食 (蠶食) | cán shí | (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at |
| 蚕丝 (蠶絲) | cán sī | natural silk (secreted by silkworm) |
| 蚕豆 (蠶豆) | cán dòu | broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean |
| 养蚕 (養蠶) | yǎng cán | to raise silkworms |
| 蚕茧 (蠶繭) | cán jiǎn | silkworm cocoon |
| 蚕种 (蠶種) | cán zhǒng | silkworm eggs |
| 沙蚕 (沙蠶) | shā cán | genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm |
| 桑蚕 (桑蠶) | sāng cán | silkworm |
| 蚕蛹 (蠶蛹) | cán yǒng | silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa |
| 蚕蛾 (蠶蛾) | cán é | Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) |
| 家蚕 (家蠶) | jiā cán | the common silkworm (Bombyx mori) |
| 桑蚕丝 (桑蠶絲) | sāng cán sī | silk (specifically, mulberry silk) |
English words written with 蚕
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.