tiān​chóng

silkworm

  • created sense approved 天虫/天蟲 · tiān​chóng · silkworm — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    天虫 / 天蟲

    tiān​chóng

    silkworm

    silkworm, especially one used in traditional medicine after dying from fungal infection

    天 (literal) → 天 · tiān · sky 虫 (literal) → 虫/蟲 · chóng · insect

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense