絲

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See also: 丝 and 糸
絲 U+7D72, 絲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D72
← 統
[U+7D71]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 絳 →
[U+7D73]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 絲
Shinjitai 糸
Simplified 丝

Han character[edit]

絲 (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))

Descendants[edit]

See also[edit]

  • Chinese Numeral 絲

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

trad. 絲
simp. 丝
alt. forms 𢇁
𢇃

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (絲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絲 *slɯ
蕬 *slɯ
鷥 *slɯ

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 糸 + 糸.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 絲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息兹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɨ/
Li
Rong		 /siə/
Wang
Li		 /sĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 絲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ si ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ə/
English silk

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 絲
Reading # 1/1
No. 12003
Phonetic
component		 絲
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 思
Old
Chinese		 /*slɯ/

Definitions[edit]

絲

  1. silk
  2. items made from woven silk
  3. silk-like object; fine thread
  4. trace; speck; tinge
  5. (Buddhism) the number 10–4

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 絲

Descendants[edit]

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

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai

 糸

Kyūjitai

 絲

Kanji[edit]

絲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 糸)

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Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

  1. (명주): silk
  2. (실): thread

See also[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

絲 (tơ, tưa, ty, ti)

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