Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

Alternative forms

• 糹／纟 (sī) (when used as a left Chinese radical)

Han character

糸 (radical 120 糸+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女戈火 (VIF), four-corner 2290₃, composition ⿱幺小)

1. Kangxi radical #120, ⽷ ‎(“silk”).
2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №467

Usage notes

When used as a left Chinese radical, Japanese shinjitai and traditional Chinese use a compressed form of 糸 (with 小 on the bottom), with traditional Chinese also using 糹 (with three dots on the bottom), and simplified Chinese uses 纟 (with 一 on the bottom).

References

• KangXi: page 915, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27221
• Dae Jaweon: page 1341, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3361, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7CF8

Chinese

Pronunciation 1

Noun

糸

1. ^†thin silk
2. ^†A length unit, equal to the width of five parallel threads of silk.

Pronunciation 2

Noun

糸

1. ^†Alternative form of 絲／丝 (sī, “silk”).

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 絲)

Readings

Kyujitai

• Goon: みゃく (myaku)
• Kan’on: べき (beki)

Shinjitai (simplification of 絲)

• Goon: し (shi)
• Kan’on: し (shi)
• Kun: いと (ito)

Noun

糸 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 絲, hiragana いと, romaji ito)

1. thread

Coordinate terms

• 紐 (ひも) ‎(himo): string

Korean

Hanja

糸 • ‎(myeok)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 멱 (revised: myeok, McCune-Reischauer: myŏk, Yale: myek)

• Name (hangeul): 가는 실 (revised: ganeun sil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

糸 (mịch)

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References

• Nom Foundation