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蠶

蠶

See also: 蠺 and 蚕

Translingual

Han character

蠶 (radical 142 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 一山日中戈 (MUALI), four-corner 11136, composition ⿳⿰旡旡日䖵)

  1. silkworm, silkworms

References

  • KangXi: page 1103, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33890
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1566, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2908, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8836

Chinese

trad. 蠶
simp. 蚕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
簪 *ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
撍 *ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
鐕 *ʔsluːm
憯 *sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
噆 *sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
朁 *sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
蠶 *zluːm
蚕 *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
糣 *sluːmʔ
熸 *ʔslom
鬵 *zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
灊 *zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
潛 *zlom, *zloms
僭 *ʔslɯːms
兓 *sl'ɯm
嶜 *zlum
兂 *ʔsrɯm
譖 *ʔsrums

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 蠶
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰan³⁵/
Harbin /t͡sʰan²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰan⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡sʰã⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡sʰã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰan⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰã²⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰã²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰan⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡sʰɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰan⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰan²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰan³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰan²¹/
Kunming /t͡sʰã̠³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰæ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰɑŋ¹³/
/t͡sɑŋ¹³/ ～儿
Hohhot /t͡sʰæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zø²³/
Suzhou /zø¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /zø³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴/
/t͡sʰʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰɔn⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡san¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡zan¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɵn²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰam¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰɑm¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰam²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰan²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰam²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰam³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰɛiŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰaŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰõi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sai³¹/
Rime
Character 蠶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 昨含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zəm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zəm/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[dz]ˤ[ə]m/
English silkworm

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 蠶
Reading # 1/1
No. 6702
Phonetic
component		 兓
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 蠶
Old
Chinese		 /*zluːm/

Definitions

蠶

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Compounds

  • 蚕菜 (cáncài)
  • 蚕茧 (cánjiǎn)

Japanese

Kanji

蠶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蚕)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蠶 • ‎(jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune-Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

  1. (누에): silkworm

Vietnamese

Han character

蠶 (tàm, tằm)

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