| cán | silkworm |
| 蚕 | silkworm |
| 蚕丛 | Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture |
| 蚕丝 | natural silk (secreted by silkworm) |
| 蚕丝细薄绸 | batiste silk |
| 蚕农 | sericulture raising silkworms |
| 蚕匾 | A device made of bamboo, wood, or reed for raising silkworms in. |
| 蚕卵 | silkworm eggs |
| 蚕子 | silkworm eggs |
| 蚕宝宝 | silkworm |
| 蚕室 | rearing house; silkworm rearing room; rearing shed |
| 蚕山 | silkworm nest (bundle of straw etc provided for silkworm to spin their cocoons) |
| 蚕床 | a rearing shed |
| 蚕房 | cocoonery |
| 蚕月 | the silkworm season; the third lunar month |
| 蚕桑 | silkworm and mulberry |
| 蚕沙 | silkworm guano (excrement) |
| 蚕眠 | hibernation period of silkworms |
| 蚕眠字 | handwriting that resembles a hibernating silkworm |
| 蚕种 | silkworm eggs |
| 蚕箔 | tray of straw for raising silkworms fig. sericulture |