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絲

絲

See also: 丝

Translingual

Traditional 絲
Shinjitai 糸
Simplified 丝

Han character

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

Descendants

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

Chinese

trad. 絲
simp. 丝

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 糸 + 糸.

Pronunciation

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

絲

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

Compounds

Descendants

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

Japanese

Kanji

絲

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

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (명주): silk
  2. (실): thread

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

絲 (tơ, tưa, ty, ti)

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