繭

See also: 茧

繭	U+7E6D, 繭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E6D

← 繬
[U+7E6C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

繮 →
[U+7E6E]

Translingual

Han character

繭 (radical 120, 糸+13 in Chinese, 糸+12 in Japanese, 19 strokes in Chinese, 18 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 廿月中戈 (TBLI) or X廿月中戈 (XTBLI), four-corner 4422₇)

cocoon
callus, blister

References

KangXi: page 940, character 11

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27944

Dae Jaweon: page 1379, character 18

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3320, character 2

Unihan data for U+7E6D

Chinese

trad.		繭
simp.		茧^*
variant forms		蠒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (繭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
襺	*keːnʔ
繭	*keːnʔ
蠒	*keːnʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiǎn (jian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaan²
Min Bei (KCR): gǎing
Min Nan (POJ): kián / kéng / kán

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade–Giles: chien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jean
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiǎn
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaan²
  - Yale: gáan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaan²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gan²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /käːn³⁵/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gǎing
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaiŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kián
  - Tâi-lô: kián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiern
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /kiɛn⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kéng
  - Tâi-lô: kíng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: keang
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kán
  - Tâi-lô: kán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: karn
  - IPA (Taipei): /kan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kan⁴¹/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 繭
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕian²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕian²¹³/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕian¹³/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕiã⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕiã⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕian⁵³/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕiã⁵³/
	Xining	/t͡ɕiã⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕian⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕiɛ̃n⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕian⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕiɛn⁴²/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕian⁵³/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕian⁴²/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕiɛ̃⁵³/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕyen²¹²/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕiĩ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕie⁵³/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕie̞⁵³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕie⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕi³⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕiɪ⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕiẽ̞⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/ji³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕie³⁵/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡siɛ³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕiẽ⁴¹/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕiẽ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕiɛn²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/kian³¹/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/kʰien³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kan³⁵/
	Nanning	/kan³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/kan³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kian⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kɛiŋ³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kaiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kõi⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kin³¹/

Middle Chinese: /ken^X/▼

Rime
Character	繭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古典切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ken^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ken^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛn^X/
Li Rong	/ken^X/
Wang Li	/kien^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/kien^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiǎn

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ[e][n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*keːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ken^X ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ[e][n]ʔ/
English	cocoon
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	繭
Reading #	1/1
No.	6150
Phonetic component	繭
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	繭
Old Chinese	/*keːnʔ/

Definitions

繭

cocoon
Synonym of 趼 (jiǎn).

Compounds

作繭自縛／作茧自缚 (zuòjiǎnzìfú)
繭子／茧子 (jiǎnzi)

繭巴／茧巴

繭花／茧花

Japanese

Kanji

繭

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

a cocoon

Readings

Go-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
Kun: まゆ (mayu, 繭, Jōyō)
Nanori: まゆ (mayu)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
繭
まゆ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) まゆ [máꜜyù] (Atamadaka – [1])
- IPA^(key): [ma̠jɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

繭 (hiragana まゆ, rōmaji mayu)

(entomology) a cocoon

Korean

Hanja

繭 • (gyeon) (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune–Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繭 (kiển, kén, kiền)

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