The meaning of silkworm

The original meaning of silkworm is insect, including "silkworm" and "tussah silkworm", which usually refers to "silkworm", eating mulberry leaves and spinning cocoons. Silk can be woven into satin.

Silkworm (pinyin: cán, Tiǐ n) is a kind of commonly used words in the General Specification of Chinese, which was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The original meaning is insects, including "silkworm" and "tussah", usually referring to "silkworm", which eats mulberry leaves and cocoons. Silk can be woven into satin. Tussah eats oak leaves, and silk can weave cocoons and silk.

Where do pictophonetic characters come from? , vibrato. The simplification of "silkworm" to "silkworm" is the result of changing from mistake to leakage, and the logical process of its change can be arranged into two lines:

(1) "Yue" in the middle of "Silkworm" province is used as glyph 4, and then it is saved as "?" The upper part of the word is changed to two "days" and becomes "Yi";

(2) Change the shape of the silkworm to the shape of the sky in the upper part, and then save the moon in the middle part as autumn.

These two systems reach the same goal by different routes, which together form the word "Zhou". The two "days" in the upper position changed from "week" to a "day" and finally formed a "silkworm". Now "silkworm" is a simplified word for "clam" and has gained legal status.

"Silkworm" can be regarded as the sound from insects and the sky, which is similar to the sound of "Fu" in ancient times, so it can also make sense in the motivation of word-making, and it can be regarded as a variant instead of sound symbols. "Silkworm" is a general term for insects of Bombycidae, which can spin silk and form cocoons.