蚕 (cán): silkworm
蚕 (cán) is a Chinese character meaning “silkworm.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 天 (phonetic) and 虫 (semantic). It ranks #3460 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 蚕 insect. Its radical form 艹 (grass) appears in many related characters such as 蒸 (zhēng, to steam), 草 (cǎo, grass), 花 (huā, flower).
Definitions
- silkworm
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蚕食verb | cán shí | (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at |
| 蚕丝noun | cán sī | natural silk (secreted by silkworm) |
| 蚕豆noun | cán dòu | broad bean (Vicia faba) |
| 蚕食鲸吞phrase | cán shí jīng tūn | (lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) |
| 桑蚕noun | sāng cán | silkworm |
| 养蚕业noun | yǎng cán yè | silk industry |
| 蚕子noun | cán zǐ | silkworm eggs |
| 家蚕noun | jiā cán | the common silkworm (Bombyx mori) |
| 蚕种 | cán zhǒng | silkworm eggs |
| 草石蚕 | cǎo shí cán | Chinese artichoke |
| 蚕宝宝noun | cán bǎo bǎo | silkworm |
| 蚕山noun | cán shān | see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟 |
| 养蚕noun | yǎng cán | to raise silkworms |
| 蚕农noun | cán nóng | sericulturist |
| 白僵蚕noun | bái jiāng cán | the larva of silkworm with batrytis |
蚕 appears in 35 compound words: 66 as the first character, 26 as the last, and 9 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
老师教我们蚕字的发音和笔顺。
lǎo shī jiào wǒ men cán zì de fā yīn hé bǐ shùn .
The teacher taught us the pronunciation and stroke order of the character for "silkworm."
揽胜首款 GT 即将问世,产品愈发激进的路虎,准备蚕食停滞的捷豹
lǎn shèng shǒu kuǎn G T jí jiāng wèn shì , chǎn pǐn yù fā jī jìn de lù hǔ , zhǔn bèi cán shí tíng zhì de jié bào
The Range Rover's first GT is set to debut; Land Rover, with its increasingly aggressive product lineup, is poised to chip away at Jaguar's stagnant market share.
陈钟辉称,当地一年可养五季蚕,产出的蚕丝莹润光亮。
chén zhōng huī chèn , dāng dì yī nián kě yǎng wǔ jì cán , chǎn chū de cán sī yíng rùn guāng liàng .
Chen Zhonghui said that five silkworm rearing seasons can be carried out there each year, and the silk produced is lustrous and glossy.
芸豆、扁豆、蚕豆和豇豆均带有“皂苷”,不焯透,上吐下泻准没跑。
芸 dòu , piān dòu , cán dòu hé 豇 dòu jūn dài yǒu zào 苷 , bù 焯 tòu , shàng tǔ xià xiè zhǔn méi pǎo .
Kidney beans, lentils, fava beans, and yardlong beans all contain “saponins”; if you don’t blanch them thoroughly, you’re guaranteed to experience vomiting and diarrhea.
进一步谈到神行者是否可能蚕食 JLR 现有车型时,巴拉吉表示并不担心。
jìn yī bù tán dào shén háng zhě shì fǒu kě néng cán shí J L R xiàn yǒu chē xíng shí , bā lā jí biǎo shì bìng bù dān xīn .
When asked further about whether the Shenxing might cannibalize JLR’s existing models, Balaji said he was not concerned.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 虫 (insect) component
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