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蚕

cán

Character Traditional 蠶

What 蚕 means

1. silkworm

Words starting with 蚕

• 蚕豆cán dòubroad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
• 蚕食cán shí(lit. and fig.) to nibble away at
• 蚕丝cán sīnatural silk (secreted by silkworm)
• 蚕丛Cán CóngCan Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture
• 蚕子cán zǐsilkworm eggs
• 蚕沙cán shāsilkworm guano (excrement)
• 蚕眠cán miána silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
• 蚕种cán zhǒngsilkworm eggs
• 蚕箔cán bóbamboo tray for raising silkworms
• 蚕纸cán zhǐpaper on which silkworm lays its eggs
• 蚕菜cán càiMalabar spinach (Basella alba)
• 蚕蛾cán éChinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
• 蚕蚁cán yǐnewly hatched silkworm
• 蚕农cán nóngsericulturist
• 蚕宝宝cán bǎo bǎosilkworm
• 蚕豆症cán dòu zhèngG6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)
• 蚕食鲸吞cán shí jīng tūn(lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)…
• 蚕茧cán jiǎnsilkworm cocoon
• 蚕茧纸cán jiǎn zhǐpaper made from silkworm cocoons
• 蚕蛹cán yǒngsilkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa
• 蚕蔟cán cùsmall bundle of straw etc provided for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 蚕山cán shānsee 蚕蔟
• 蚕薄cán bóvariant of 蚕箔

Words containing 蚕

• 家蚕jiā cánthe common silkworm (Bombyx mori)
• 春蚕Chūn cánSilkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on…
• 桑蚕sāng cánsilkworm
• 沙蚕shā cángenus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
• 卧蚕wò cánplump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature)
• 养蚕yǎng cánto raise silkworms
• 桑蚕丝sāng cán sīsilk (specifically, mulberry silk)
• 白僵蚕bái jiāng cánthe larva of silkworm with batrytis
• 草石蚕cǎo shí cánChinese artichoke; Stachys sieboldii
• 养蚕业yǎng cán yèsilk industry
• 柘蚕zhè cánsilkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘
• 柞蚕丝zuò cán sītussah silk

Characters that look like 蚕

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 毒dúpoison; to poison; poisonous
• 套tàoto cover; to encase; cover
• 香xiāngfragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic
• 泰tàisafe; peaceful; most
• 奎kuícrotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
• 娄Lóusurname Lou; one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy

Sounds the same

Read cán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惭ashamed
• 残to destroy; to spoil; to ruin