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

Possibly related to Tibetan སྡོམ (sdom, “spider”), which is likely related to Tibetan སྡོམ (sdom, “to bind; to tie”), 蔪 (OC *zamʔ, “to entwine”) (Bodman, 1980; Coblin, 1986). The silkworm, as the spider, would thus be seen as a "binder; spinner". Compare the semantic development of English spider, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”).

These may be derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tip ~ *tu(p/m) (“to wrap up”), whence also གཏུམ (gtum, “to wrap up”), Burmese ထုပ် (htup, “to wrap, bundle”); other Chinese comparanda include 縶 (OC *tib, “to rope, tether, bind”), and 纏 (OC *dan, *dans, “to bind”) (STEDT).

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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