蚕

See also: 蠶

蚕 U+8695, 蚕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8695 ← 蚔 [U+8694] CJK Unified Ideographs 蚖 → [U+8696]

Translingual

Han character

蚕 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹大中一戈 (HKLMI) or 一大中一戈 (MKLMI), four-corner 2013₆, composition ⿱天虫)

Derived characters

• 𱐈, 𰯁, 𧍦, 𧎕, 𥱄, 䘉, 𮇀

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1077, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32869
• Dae Jaweon: page 1546, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2837, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8695

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
添	*tʰiːm
忝	*l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms
悿	*tʰiːmʔ
舔	*l̥ʰiːmʔ
菾	*diːm
天	*qʰl'iːn
吞	*qʰl'iːn, *qʰl'ɯːn
祆	*qʰliːn
蚕	*zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ): phonetic 天 (OC *qʰl'iːn) + semantic 虫 (“insect”).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 蚕 – see 蠶 (“silkworm”). (This character is the simplified form of 蠶).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		蚕
alternative forms		𧉂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiǎn (tian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien³
    • Yale: tyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tean
    • Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: thenX

Rime
Character	蚕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	他典切
Baxter	thenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰenX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰenX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛnX/
Li Rong	/tʰenX/
Wang Li	/tʰienX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰienX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tiǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hl'iːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蚕
Reading #	2/2
No.	12390
Phonetic component	天
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	腆
Old Chinese	/*hl'iːnʔ/
Notes	見爾雅

Definitions

蚕

1. only used in 蜸蚕 (qiǎntiǎn, “earthworm”)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04234