蚕

silkworm

day / sky / heaven

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

natural silk (secreted by silkworm)

silkworm

silkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘[zhe4] tree

genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm

the larva of silkworm with batrytis

plump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature)

Chinese artichoke / Stachys sieboldii

Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture

silkworm eggs

silkworm

silkworm nest (bundle of straw etc provided for silkworm to spin their cocoons)

silkworm guano (excrement)

a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting

silkworm eggs

tray of straw for raising silkworms / fig. sericulture

sericulturist

to raise silkworms

silk industry

the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)

Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4]