Usage of the character 蠶
cán
蚕
[蠶]
- silkworm
cánshí
蚕食
[蠶食]
- (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at
cánzǐ
蚕子
[蠶子]
- silkworm eggs
cáncù
蚕蔟
[蠶蔟]
- small bundle of straw etc provided for silkworms to spin cocoons on
cánshā
蚕沙
[蠶沙]
- silkworm guano (excrement)
cánshān
蚕山
[蠶山]
- see 蠶蔟／蚕蔟 (cáncu)
cánbó
蚕薄
[蠶薄]
- variant of 蠶箔／蚕箔 (cánbó)
zhècán
柘蚕
[柘蠶]
- silkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘 (zhè) tree
cányǐ
蚕蚁
[蠶蟻]
- newly hatched silkworm
cánzhǐ
蚕纸
[蠶紙]
- paper on which silkworm lays its eggs
cányǒng
蚕蛹
[蠶蛹]
- silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa
cándòu
蚕豆
[蠶豆]
- broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
cánmián
蚕眠
[蠶眠]
- a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
cánbó
蚕箔
[蠶箔]
- bamboo tray for raising silkworms
cáncài
蚕菜
[蠶菜]
- Malabar spinach (Basella alba)
cánnóng
蚕农
[蠶農]
- sericulturist
cánzhǒng
蚕种
[蠶種]
- silkworm eggs
wòcán
卧蚕
[臥蠶]
- plump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature)
cánjiǎn
蚕茧
[蠶繭]
- silkworm cocoon
yǎngcán
养蚕
[養蠶]
- to raise silkworms
jiācán
家蚕
[家蠶]
- the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)
shācán
沙蚕
[沙蠶]
- genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
cánsī
蚕丝
[蠶絲]
- natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
cán'é
蚕蛾
[蠶蛾]
- Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
Chūncán
春蚕
[春蠶]
- Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾 ( Máo Dùn)
Cán Cóng
蚕丛
[蠶叢]
- Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture
sāngcán
桑蚕
[桑蠶]
- silkworm
yǎngcányè
养蚕业
[養蠶業]
- silk industry
cǎoshícán
草石蚕
[草石蠶]
- Chinese artichoke
- Stachys sieboldii
cánbǎobǎo
蚕宝宝
[蠶寶寶]
- silkworm
cánjiǎnzhǐ
蚕茧纸
[蠶繭紙]
- paper made from silkworm cocoons
cándòuzhèng
蚕豆症
[蠶豆症]
- G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)
báijiāngcán
白僵蚕
[白殭蠶]
- the larva of silkworm with batrytis
cánshíjīngtūn
蚕食鲸吞
[蠶食鯨吞]
- lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)
- fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale