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繭

See also: 茧
繭 U+7E6D, 繭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E6D
← 繬
[U+7E6C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 繮 →
[U+7E6E]

Translingual

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Han character

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繭 (Kangxi 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 難廿月中戈 (XTBLI), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹⿵冂⿲糹丨虫)

  1. cocoon
  2. callus, blister

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 940, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27944
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1379, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3320, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7E6D

Chinese

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trad. 繭
simp. 茧*
alternative forms 蠒
絸／𬘖

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 糸 (“silk”) + 虫 (“insect”) + abbreviated 黹 (“needlework”).

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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/
Tunxi /t͡siɛ³¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiẽ⁴¹/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕiẽ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kian³¹/
Taoyuan /kʰien³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kan³⁵/
Nanning /kan³⁵/
Hong Kong /kan³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kian⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kɛiŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kaiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /kõi⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kin³¹/
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
Baxter kenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kenX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kenX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kɛnX/
Li
Rong 		/kenX/
Wang
Li 		/kienX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gin2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 繭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kenX ›
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

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繭

  1. cocoon
  2. callus

Synonyms

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  • (cocoon):
Dialectal synonyms of 蠶繭 (“silkworm cocoon”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 繭
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 蠶繭
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 繭子
Taiwan 蠶繭
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 繭子
Wanrong 繭圪螻
Xining 繭
Xuzhou 繭扣子, 繭子, 繭兒, 蠶扣子
Lanyin Mandarin Ürümqi 蠶殼
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 繭殼兒, 蠶繭
Guiyang 蠶繭
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 蠶繭子
Yangzhou 蠶果子
Cantonese Hong Kong 蠶繭
Dongguan 蠶繭
Gan Nanchang 蠶繭, 繭
Lichuan 繭
Hakka Yudu 蠶包
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 蠶筴, 蠶繭, 蠶包
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 蠶繭
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 蠶包, 蠶繭
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 蠶包, 蠶繭
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 蠶包, 蠶繭
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 蠶包
Huizhou Jixi 蠶繭, 繭
Jin Taiyuan 蠶繭
Pingyao 絲管管
Xinzhou 繭殼子
Eastern Min Fuzhou 蠶繭, 繭
Fuqing 虎囝
Southern Min Xiamen 娘仔帽, 娘仔棗, 娘仔繭, 娘帽
Quanzhou 娘仔帽, 娘帽
Yongchun 繭
Zhangzhou 蠶帽
Dongshan 棗
Taipei 觳仔
New Taipei (Sanxia) 娘仔觳
Yilan 觳仔
Changhua (Lukang) 娘仔觳
Taichung 娘仔觳仔
Tainan 蠶仔繭, 塗豆仁
Hsinchu 娘仔觳仔
Kinmen 娘仔繭
Penghu (Magong) 娘仔繭
Haikou 蠶蜎
Central Min Sanming (Shaxian) 蠶仔絲
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 蠶繭
Wu Shanghai 繭子
Shanghai (Chongming) 蠶繭
Suzhou 繭子
Danyang 繭殼
Hangzhou 繭子
Wenzhou 蠶繭
Jinhua 蠶繭兒
Xiang Loudi 繭子
  • (callus):

Compounds

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Japanese

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Shinjitai 繭
Kyūjitai
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繭󠄁
繭+&#xE0101;?
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Kanji

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繭

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. a cocoon

Readings

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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繭(まゆ) • (mayu) 

  1. (entomology) a cocoon

References

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  1. ^ “繭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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Hanja

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

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繭: Hán Nôm readings: kiển, kén, kiền

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