茧
jiǎn

cocoon

茧 (繭) jiǎn
cocoon noun
the protective silk covering produced by insect larvae, especially silkworms

蚕在树叶上结了一个茧。

cán zài shù​yè shàng jié le yī gè jiǎn.

The silkworm spun a cocoon on the leaf.

callus noun
a thickened and hardened part of the skin caused by friction or pressure

由于长年干农活，他的手上长了厚厚的茧。

yóu​yú cháng​nián gàn nóng​huó, tā de shǒu shàng zhǎng le hòu hòu de jiǎn.

Due to years of farm work, he has thick calluses on his hands.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,608th most common 4.67 per million
Movie subtitles
3,211th most common 2.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.00 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.20 per million

Details
Traditional
繭
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8327

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)