Memory phrase for the character: 蚕

蚕

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Meaning

silkworm

Pronunciation

SAN
kaiko

Explanation

 Top: sky/heaven 天, bottom: insect 虫 (body 口 and sting ム of an insect)

Mnemonic
 
What a heavenly insect is: the silkworm!

Radicals

天 heaven, skyNote the direction of the stroke in this variant 夭, which goes at the upper stroke from right to left and then has the meaning “early death.”
虫 insectThe body 口 and the sting ム of an insect




 Vocabulary

養蚕 ようさん  silkworm culture, silkworm rearing
蚕糸 さんし  silk thread
蚕食 さんしょく  intrusion, invasion, encroachment

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