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蚕茧
cán​jiǎn

silkworm cocoon

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蚕茧 蠶繭 cán​jiǎn
silkworm cocoon
the protective shell made of silk fibers that a silkworm spins before turning into a pupa; the raw material used for silk production

Frequency

Written text
0.757 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 只 zhī

Same as

  • 茧子 jiǎn​zi

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)