蠶 — Chinese character
蠶
cán
silkworm
- Pinyin
- cán
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 24
- Components
- 兓 日 虫 虫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 兓
- Simplified
- 蚕
- Japanese
- 蠶 as a kanji
蠶 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2
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.