







cocoon
silkworm cocoon
She also devised a special reel to draw the fibres from the cocoon into a single thread so that they would be strong enough to be woven into fabric.
It just so happened that while she was sipping some tea, one of the cocoons that she had collected landed in the hot tea and started to unravel into a fine thread.

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Open the tool →蚕茧 (cán jiǎn) means “cocoon, silkworm cocoon”.
蚕茧 is pronounced cán jiǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
“cocoon” is 蚕茧 (cán jiǎn) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 蚕茧, each with pinyin and an English translation.