茧 (繭) jiǎn

1. jiǎn noun a cocoon
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Specially of a silk worm (CC-CEDICT '繭'; Guoyu '繭' n 1; Mathews 1931 '繭', p. 116; Unihan '繭')
2. jiǎn noun a blister; a callus
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '繭'; Guoyu '繭' n 1; Unihan '繭')

Contained in

• 飞蛾投火，作茧自缚(飛蛾投火，作繭自縛) like a moth flying into the flame, and a silkworm trapping itself in a cocoon
• 蚕茧自缚(蠶繭自縛) silkworm makes a cocoon
• 作茧自缚(作繭自縛) to spin a cocoon around oneself; enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising ; to spin a cocoon around oneself

Also contained in

茧茧 、 作茧 、 茧栗 、 造茧自缚 、 重茧 、 茧绸 、 茧衣 、 抽丝剥茧 、 茧丝 、 老茧 、 蚕茧 、 茧子 、 手足重茧 、 结茧 、 蚕茧纸 、 茧虫

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 60 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 7
• Scroll 4 Divine Spells and Great Dharanis Taught by the Seven Buddhas and Eight Bodhisattvas (Qi Fo Ba Pusa Suo Shuo Da Tuoluoni Shen Zhou Jing) 七佛八菩薩所說大陀羅尼神呪經 — count: 6 , has English translation
• Scroll 7 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 6
• Scroll 14 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 4
• Scroll 5 Mahīśāsakavinaya 彌沙塞部和醯五分律 — count: 4 , has English translation
• Scroll 5 Sarvāstivādavinayavibhāṣā (Sapoduopinipiposha) 薩婆多毘尼毘婆沙 — count: 4
• Scroll 3 Ji Shenzhou San Bao Gan Tong Lu 集神州三寶感通錄 — count: 4 , has English translation
• Scroll 31 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 4
• Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 3
• Scroll 2 Liang Chu Qing Zhong Yi 量處輕重儀 — count: 3

Collocations

• 处茧 (處繭) 如蠶處繭 — Dafangbian Fo Bao'en Jing 大方便佛報恩經, Scroll 3 — count: 24
• 云茧 (雲繭) 往昔過去字憍尸迦此云繭兒 — Ren Wang Hu Guo Boreluomi Jing Shu 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏, Scroll 1 — count: 8
• 煮茧 (煮繭) 墾土掘地種植田園養蠶煮繭 — Sutra on the Names of the Buddhas (Fo Shuo Fo Ming Jing) 佛說佛名經, Scroll 5 — count: 8
• 茧中 (繭中) 如蠶渾沌繭中 — Sutra on Four Wishes (Fo Shuo Si Yuan Jing) 佛說四願經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
• 乞茧 (乞繭) 乞繭 — Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律, Scroll 7 — count: 6
• 一茧 (一繭) 目中著一繭鼻中二繭 — Divine Spells and Great Dharanis Taught by the Seven Buddhas and Eight Bodhisattvas (Qi Fo Ba Pusa Suo Shuo Da Tuoluoni Shen Zhou Jing) 七佛八菩薩所說大陀羅尼神呪經, Scroll 4 — count: 4
• 暴茧 (暴繭) 暴繭作聲 — Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔, Scroll 2 — count: 4
• 茧儿 (繭兒) 往昔過去字憍尸迦此云繭兒 — Ren Wang Hu Guo Boreluomi Jing Shu 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏, Scroll 1 — count: 4
• 奉茧 (奉繭) 反禮記世婦卒蠶奉繭以示于君蠶事既登奉繭稱絲說文云繭蠶衣也從糸從虫從繭者或作絸古字也 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 14 — count: 4
• 生茧 (生繭) 或有宿世煮生繭 — Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論, Scroll 16 — count: 3