蚕 (cán): meaning and stroke order
蚕 (cán) means silkworm.
蚕
- Simplified
- 蚕
- Traditional
- 蠶
- Pinyin
- cán
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Stroke order of 蚕
蚕
- cán silkworm
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 蠶
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Meaning of 蚕
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cán
Traditional 蠶
- silkworm
Radical and structure
- 蚕
- Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 10 strokes · 天 on top, 虫 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 蚕
- 蚕种 cán zhǒng silkworm eggs
- 蚕丝 cán sī natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
蚕 in our stories
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于是，她开始教人们种桑树、养蚕，再把蚕丝纺成线，织成布。
yúshì tā kāishǐ jiāo rénmen zhòng sāngshù yǎng cán zài bǎ cánsī fǎng chéng xiàn zhī chéng bù
So she began to teach people to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms, then to spin the silk into thread and weave it into cloth.
From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 蚕
- Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).