絲 — Chinese character
絲
sī
silk, fine thread; wire; strings
- Pinyin
- sī
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 糹 糸
- Formation
- ideographic — Finely-layered 糹silk 糸; 糹 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 丝
- Japanese
- 絲 as a kanji
絲 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.