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:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 蚕
alt. forms 𧉂

Pronunciation

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		 /tʰenX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰenX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛnX/
Li
Rong		 /tʰenX/
Wang
Li		 /tʰienX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tiǎn
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

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

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

 蚕

Kyūjitai

 蠶

Kanji

蚕

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

  1. silkworm

Readings

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)

  1. 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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