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蠶食 in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
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Chinese
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silkworm
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eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
| trad. (蠶食)
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蠶
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食
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| simp. (蚕食)
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蚕
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食
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| Literally: “to eat like a silkworm”.
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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蠶
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食
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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cán
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shí
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ dzom ›
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‹ zyik ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*C.ˁm/
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/*mə-lək/
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| English
|
silkworm
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eat
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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蠶
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食
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| Reading #
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1/1
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2/2
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| No.
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6702
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11477
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Phonetic
component
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兓
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食
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Rime
group
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侵
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職
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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蠶
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Old
Chinese
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/*zluːm/
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/*ɦljɯɡ/
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Verb
蠶食
- (literary) to encroach upon; to eat away; to nibble away at
Derived terms