蚕

See also: 蠶

蚕	U+8695, 蚕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8695

← 蚔
[U+8694]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蚖 →
[U+8696]

Translingual

Han character

蚕 (radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹大中一戈 (HKLMI) or 一大中一戈 (MKLMI), four-corner 2013₆, composition ⿱天虫)

References

KangXi: page 1077, character 38

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32869

Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 31

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2837, character 2

Unihan data for U+8695

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
添	*tʰiːm
忝	l̥ʰiːmʔ, l̥ʰiːms
悿	*tʰiːmʔ
舔	*l̥ʰiːmʔ
菾	*diːm
天	*qʰl'iːn
吞	qʰl'iːn, qʰl'ɯːn
祆	*qʰliːn
蚕	zluːm, hl'iːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ) : phonetic 天 (OC *qʰl'iːn) + semantic 虫 (“insect”).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚕 – see 蠶 (“silkworm”). (This character, 蚕, is the simplified form of 蠶.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		蚕
variant forms		𧉂

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiǎn (tian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: tiǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade–Giles: t'ien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tean
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn²¹⁴/

Middle Chinese: /tʰen^X/▼

Rime
Character	蚕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	他典切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰen^X/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰen^X/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛn^X/
Li Rong	/tʰen^X/
Wang Li	/tʰien^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰien^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tiǎn

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*hl'iːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚕
Reading #	2/2
No.	12390
Phonetic component	天
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	腆
Old Chinese	/*hl'iːnʔ/
Notes	見爾雅

Definitions

蚕

Only used in 蜸蚕 (qiǎntiǎn, “earthworm”).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04234

Japanese

Shinjitai	蚕
Kyūjitai	蠶

Kanji

蚕

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 蠶)

silkworm

Readings

Go-on: ぞん (zon)^{←ぞん (zon, historical)}^{←ぞむ (zomu, ancient)}; てん (ten)
Kan-on: さん (san, Jōyō)^{←さん (san, historical)}^{←さむ (samu, ancient)}; てん (ten)
Kun: かいこ (kaiko, 蚕, Jōyō); こ (ko, 蚕)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蚕
かいこ Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Noun

蚕 (hiragana かいこ, katakana カイコ, rōmaji kaiko)

the silkworm (Bombyx mori)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as カイコ.

Korean

Hanja

蚕 • (cheon, jam) (hangeul 천, 잠, revised cheon, jam, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, cham, Yale chen, cam)

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