繭

See also 茧

Translingual

Han character

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

1. cocoon
2. 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

繭 (simplified 茧, Yale gaan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

繭 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: まゆ (mayu)

Noun

繭 (hiragana まゆ, romaji mayu)

1. cocoon

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

繭 (simplified 茧, pinyin jiǎn (jian3), Wade-Giles chien³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

繭 (kiển, kén, kiền)