蠶

蠶 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 一山日中戈 (MUALI), four-corner 1113₆, composition ⿱朁䖵)

• 𨽳 𧖛 𥸢

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1103, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33890
• Dae Jaweon: page 1566, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2908, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8836

Bodman (1980) relates this to Tibetan སྡོམ (sdom, “spider”). Perhaps cognate to 蔪 (OC *zamʔ, “to entwine”) (Schuessler, 2007), as well as 縶 (OC *tib, “to rope, tether, bind”), with these terms deriving from a Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tip ~ *tu(p/m) (“to wrap up”), whence Burmese ထုပ် (htup, “to wrap, bundle”) (STEDT). The silkworm would thus be seen as a "wrapping (bug)", which is particularly apt when considering the process of sericulture.

蠶

1. silkworm

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蚕)

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• Go-on: ぞん (zon)^{←ぞん (zon, historical)←ぞむ (zomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: さん (san)^{←さん (san, historical)←さむ (samu, ancient)}
• Kun: かいこ (kaiko, 蠶)

蠶 (eumhun 누에 잠 (nue jam))

1. silkworm

蠶: Hán Nôm readings: tàm, tằm

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