絲

See also: 丝 and 糸

Translingual

Traditional	絲
Shinjitai	糸
Simplified	丝

Han character

絲 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火女戈火 (VFVIF), four-corner 2299₃, composition ⿰糹糸(GHTV) or ⿰糸糸(JK))

Derived characters

• 䜌, 㬎, 聯, 轡, 𢇅

See also

• Chinese Numeral 絲
  • Next: 忽
  • Last: 毫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 924, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3401, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7D72

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Chinese

trad.		絲
simp.		丝
alternative forms		𢇁 𢇃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絲
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
絲	*slɯ
蕬	*slɯ
鷥	*slɯ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 糸 + 糸.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 絲

1. silk
2. items made from woven silk
3. silk-like object; fine thread; thin strip; thin shred
4. trace; speck; tinge
5. (music) string instrument

   絲竹／丝竹  ―  sīzhú  ―  string and wind instruments; music

6. (Buddhism, obsolete) the number 10^–4

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Σήρ (Sḗr) (see silk for more details)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	糸
Kyūjitai	絲

Kanji

絲

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 糸)

1. Template:kyujitai spelling of: thread

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: いと (ito, 絲)

Compounds

• 語絲(ごし) (Goshi)
• 青(チン)椒(ジャオ)肉(ロウ)絲(スー) (chinjao rōsū)
• 拌(バン)三(サン)絲(スー) (bansansū)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
絲
いと Hyōgai
kun'yomi

See 糸.

Proper noun

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

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Korean

Hanja

絲 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

1. (명주): silk
2. (실): thread

See also

• 蠶 (누에 잠, jam) silkworm
• 蛹 (번데기 용, yong) pupa
• 繭 (고치 견, gyeon) cocoon
• 絹 (명주 견, gyeon) silk
• 絲 (명주, 실 사, sir, sil) silk, thread
• 桑 (뽕나무 상, sang) mulberry

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 絲 (tơ, tưa, ty, ti)

1. (deprecated template usage) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.