茧繭

Ideographic: A silk cocoon 艹 spun by a worm 虫Radical: 艸

meaning for 茧 jiǎn:

  • - cocoon
  • - callussilkworm cocooncallus (patch or hardened skin)
  • - corns (on feet)
  • - also 老趼 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom)
  • - enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
  • - hoist by his own petardcallus (patch or hardened skin)
  • - corns (on feet)
  • - also 趼子 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
  • - fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)