絲

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simplified	丝
traditional	絲

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 4.1.1 See also 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 糸 + 糸

[edit] Han character

絲 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火女戈火 (VFVIF), four-corner 2299₃)

1. silk
2. fine thread
3. wire
4. strings
5. the number 10^-4

[edit] Descendants

• 䜌, 㬎, 聯, 轡, 𢇅

[edit] References

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

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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

絲 (simplified 丝, Yale si1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

絲

[edit] Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: いと (ito)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

絲 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

1. (명주): silk
2. (실): thread

[edit] 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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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

絲 (simplified 丝, pinyin sī (si1), Wade-Giles ssu¹)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

絲 (ti)