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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.

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