絲

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See also: 丝, 糸, and 𢇁
絲 U+7D72, 絲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D72
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Translingual

Traditional 絲
Simplified 丝
Japanese 糸
Korean 絲

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 924, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27448
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3401, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7D72

Chinese

trad. 絲
simp. 丝
alternative forms 𢇁
𢇃
糸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絲
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (絲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絲 *slɯ
蕬 *slɯ
鷥 *slɯ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 糸 + 糸.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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
Baxter si
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sɨ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sɨ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sɨ/
Li
Rong 		/siə/
Wang
Li 		/sĭə/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		si1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 絲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ si ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ə/
English silk

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 (fiber, cloth, fabrics, etc.)
    蠶絲／蚕丝  ―  cánsī  ―  natural silk
    絲織品／丝织品  ―  sīzhīpǐn  ―  silk fabric; silk knit goods
    絲帶／丝带  ―  sīdài  ―  silk ribbon
    絲綢之路／丝绸之路  ―  Sīchóu zhī Lù  ―  Silk Road
  2. thread; thread/silk-like objects; string; thin strip; thin shred
    蜘蛛絲／蜘蛛丝  ―  zhīzhūsī  ―  spider silk; cobweb
    鐵絲／铁丝  ―  tiěsī  ―  iron wire
    鎢絲／钨丝  ―  wūsī  ―  tungsten filament
    髮絲／发丝  ―  fàsī  ―  hair strand
    粉絲／粉丝  ―  fěnsī  ―  vermicelli
    1. (cooking) shreds; julienne strips
      肉絲／肉丝  ―  ròusī  ―  shredded meat
      筍絲／笋丝  ―  sǔnsī  ―  sliced bamboo shoots
      切絲／切丝  ―  qiēsī  ―  to cut into shreds; to julienne
  3. (music) string instrument
    絲竹／丝竹  ―  sīzhú  ―  string and wind instruments; music
  4. trace; tiny bit; classifier for extremely small quantities or abstract things, often in negatives. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    絲毫／丝毫  ―  sīháo  ―  slightest bit
    一絲希望／一丝希望  ―  yī sī xīwàng  ―  a glimmer of hope
    一絲微笑／一丝微笑  ―  yī sī wēixiào  ―  a trace of smile
    一絲懷疑／一丝怀疑  ―  yī sī huáiyí  ―  a shadow of doubt
    一絲光線／一丝光线  ―  yī sī guāngxiàn  ―  a gleam of light
    一絲風都沒有／一丝风都没有  ―  yī sī fēng dōu méiyǒu  ―  There is not even a breath of wind.
    沒有一絲雲彩／没有一丝云彩  ―  méiyǒu yī sī yúncǎi  ―  not a cloud in the sky
  5. (dated) the number 10-4; 1/10000th of certain units of measure
    絲米／丝米  ―  sīmǐ  ―  decimillimeter
    1. (Mainland China) traditional unit of length equal to 1/10000th of 寸 (cùn, “Chinese inch, 1/3 decimeter”) ≈ 3.3 micron
    2. (Mainland China) traditional unit of weight equal to 1/10000th of 錢／钱 (qián, “mace”) = 1/1000000th of 斤 (jīn, “catty, 0.5 kilogram”) = 0.5 milligram

Compounds

Descendants

See also

Chinese historical small numbers
Value Character Notes
10-1 分 (fèn) Still in use. SI prefix deci-.
10-2 厘 (lí), 釐 (lí) Still in use. SI prefix centi-.
10-3 毫 (háo) Still in use. SI prefix milli-. Also 毛 (máo).
10-4 絲 / 丝 (sī) Rarely used today.
秒 (miǎo) Obsolete, only in ancient texts.
10-5 忽 (hū) Rarely used today.
10-6 微 (wēi) Still in use. SI prefix micro-.
10-7 纖 / 纤 (xiān) Obsolete.
10-8 沙 (shā) Obsolete.
10-9 塵 / 尘 (chén) Obsolete. 納 / 纳 (nà) and 奈 (nài) are used for nano-.
10-10 埃 (āi) Obsolete. In modern use, the character for angstrom (10-10 m).
10-11 渺 (miǎo) Obsolete.
10-12 漠 (mò) Obsolete. 皮 (pí) is used for SI prefix pico-.

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

糸

Kyūjitai

絲

Kanji

絲

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 糸)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 糸: thread

Readings

  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)
  • Kun: いと (ito, 絲)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
絲
いと
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 絲 – see the following entry.
【糸】1
first grade kanji
Kanji reading:
し, いと
(This term, 絲, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

絲(いと) • (Ito) 

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

Korean

Hanja

絲 • (sa) (hangeul 사)

  1. (명주): silk
  2. (실): thread

See also

Old Japanese

Etymology

From Proto-Japonic *ito.

Noun

絲 (ito1 or ito2)

  1. thread
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 4, poem 516:
      吾以在三相二搓流絲用而附手益物今曽悔寸
      WA GA MOTERU MI1TU API1 ni YO2RERU ITO MOTITE TUKE2temasi MONO2 IMA so2 KUYASIki1
      I am holding ! Three things spinning each other! If I put on that threads that, I'm holding right now, then I'll be regretting it!

Reconstruction notes

This word is only attested phonographically in two sources: a sakimori uta (Eastern Old Japanese) poem in the Man'yōshū as 伊刀, and in the Kakyō Hyōshiki as 伊止.[1]

The Records of the Three Kingdoms record a placename ito1 (伊都), and the Nihon Shoki also records ito1 (伊覩), which has been connected to Modern Japanese 糸島 (Itoshima) in Fukuoka Prefecture, and Bentley (2008, 15) connects this placename to this word.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: 糸 (ito)

References

  1. ^ Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 85

Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

絲: Hán Nôm readings: tơ, tưa, ty, ti

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