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繭

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) or 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

Chinese

trad. 繭
simp. 茧

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

  • 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 (Min Nan) /kian⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛiŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kaiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kõi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kenX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kenX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛnX/
Li
Rong		 /kenX/
Wang
Li		 /kienX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 繭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤ[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

繭

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Compounds

  • 繭巴／茧巴
  • 繭花／茧花

Japanese

Kanji

繭

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. a cocoon

Readings

Pronunciation

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

Noun

繭 ‎(hiragana まゆ, romaji mayu)

  1. (entomology) a cocoon

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

繭 (kiển, kén, kiền)

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