絲

See also: 丝, 糸, 纟, and 糸

§Translingual

§Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 糸 + 糸

§Han character

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

§Descendants

• 䜌, 㬎, 聯, 轡, 𢇅

§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

§See also

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

---

§Chinese

		-
trad.		絲
simp.		丝

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sṳ̂
• Min Dong (BUC): sĭ
• Min Nan (POJ): si
• Wu (WT Romanisation): sr (T1)

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Wade-Giles: szu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̂
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /sɨ²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭ
    • IPA ^(key): /si⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si
    • Tâi-lô: si
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: sr (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (絲, reconstructed)
Character (絲), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 息兹切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sɨ/	/si/	/siə/	/sɨ/	/sɨ/	/sĭə/	/sie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (絲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
絲								sī								‹ si ›								/*[s]ə/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
絲					12003					絲					之					0					思					/*slɯ/

§Noun

絲

1. silk
2. fine thread
3. trace
4. the number 10^-4

§Compounds

Derived terms

絲綢 絲帶 絲恩發怨 絲糕 絲瓜 絲毫 絲米 絲絲拉拉 絲絲入扣 絲襪 絲弦 絲線 絲織品 絲竹

---

§Japanese

§Kanji

絲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. This entry needs a definition. Please add one, then remove {{defn}}.

§Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: いと (ito)

---

§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

---

§Vietnamese

§Han character

絲 (ti), tơ, tưa, ty

1. This entry needs a definition. Please add one, then remove {{defn}}.