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Kanji Detail for 蚕 - "silkworm, raising silkworms"
蚕
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Meaning
蚕 means "silkworm, raising silkworms."
Silkworm - Caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves and makes cocoons.
To raise silkworms - Sericulture.
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- Verified meaning: silkworm, raising silkworms
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
silkworm
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
silkworms
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
silkworm
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
silkworm
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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