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Meaning of 茧

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(Trad.: 繭)
Pinyin: jiǎn
English Definition: cocoon; callus
Chinese Definition:
①某些昆虫的幼虫在变成蛹之前吐丝做成的壳:蚕茧。茧眉(形容女子秀美的眉毛)。
②同“趼”。
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Ideographic:A silk cocoon spun by a worm
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Example Words
蚕茧 cán jiǎn silkworm cocoon
老茧 lǎo jiǎn callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 老趼
作茧自缚 zuò jiǎn to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising; hoist by his own petard
茧子 jiǎn zi callus (patch or hardened skin); corns (on feet); also 趼子
抽丝剥茧 chōu bāo jiǎn lit. to spin silk from cocoons; fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
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Example Sentences
1
It's a silkworm cocoon.
2
A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.
3
Its emergence from entombment as a chrysalis may have inspired ideas about human resurrection.
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Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
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Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.