絸

絸 U+7D78, 絸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D78 ← 絷 [U+7D77] CJK Unified Ideographs 絹 → [U+7D79]

Translingual

Han character

絸 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女火月山山 (VFBUU), composition ⿰糹見)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 924, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27466
• Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3404, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D78

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (見) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
涀	*ɡeːlʔ, *kʰeːns, *ɡeːns
莧	*ɡreːns
粯	*ɡreːns
晛	*ŋl'eːns, *ɡeːnʔ
筧	*keːnʔ
絸	*keːnʔ
垷	*keːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
挸	*keːnʔ
見	*keːns, *ɡeːns
俔	*kʰeːns, *ɡeːnʔ
蜆	*kʰeːns, *qʰeːnʔ, *ɡeːnʔ
硯	*ŋɡeːn, *ŋɡeːns
峴	*ɡeːnʔ
哯	*ɡeːnʔ
睍	*ɡeːnʔ
現	*ɡeːns

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 絸 – see 繭 (“cocoon; callus”). (This character is a variant form of 繭).

Japanese

Kanji

絸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. variant of 絹

Readings

• Go-on: けん (ken)
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kun: きぬ (kinu, 絸)