cocoon / callus
(bound form) cocoon / (bound form) callus (variant of 趼[jian3])

繭 character breakdown

towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50

= + : Joan of Arc has smuggled a dinosaur bone out of the encampment. To hide it, she covered it in maps and towels.
fine silk / Kangxi radical 120

= + : In the space station's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe uses zero gravity to fulfill her lifelong dream of flying on a carpet like Aladdin. In the space station she doesn't have a carpet, but she has a large ace on which she sits. She uses a silken scarf as a turban, and she holds a daisy in her hand as magic wand.
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.
variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic

= + : Chantal Chicken and a mosquito are taking part in a dart contest just inside the engine's kitchen. The dart board is hanging in the middle of the entrance, and Chantal and the mosquito are standing to the sides. Over each of them a large fake nose is hovering: the loser will be covered in grey goose as punishment.

Characters with 繭 as component

繭 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 繭

callus (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 petard
callus (patch or hardened skin) / corns (on feet) / also 趼子
lit. to break through a cocoon and turn into a butterfly (idiom) / fig. to emerge strong after a period of struggle / to get to a better place after going through difficult period
silkworm cocoon
paper made from silkworm cocoons
to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
thick callus / (literary) thick silkwaste padded clothes
to make a cocoon
(Internet) echo chamber / filter bubble
lit. to spin silk from cocoons / fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)

Sentences with 繭

繭 currently does not appear in any sentence.