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The kanji 蚕: meaning, readings and stroke order
蚕
- Meaning
- silkworm
- On reading
- サン san
- Kun reading
- かいこ kaiko
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 虫 insect
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
- Old form
- 蠶
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- con tằm (tàm)
- Japanese
- かいこ。きぬの いとを はく むし。
- Korean
- 누에 (천)
- Chinese
- 蚕
Readings, words and example sentences
サン san · on reading · less common
養蚕
raising silkworms
この 村は 養蚕で さかえました。
This village grew rich from raising silkworms.
かいこ kaiko · kun reading
蚕
silkworm
教室で 蚕を 育てて います。
We are raising silkworms in our classroom.
Practise writing 蚕 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 蚕 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 6 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.