silk

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph depicting silk fibers or threads. In seal script and oracle-bone script, it represents a bundle of twisted fibers or threads, illustrating the process of drawing and twisting silk from silkworms.

Mnemonic: The shape resembles parallel threads twisted together, evoking the silk threads of ancient weaving traditions.

• 绝jué🔊

  to cut short

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 缇tí🔊

  orange-red silk

  12 strokes

• 紫zǐ🔊

  purple

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 缘yuán🔊

  cause

  12 strokes

• 缓huǎn🔊

  slow

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 绗háng🔊

  to quilt

  12 strokes

• 绦tāo🔊

  braid

  12 strokes

• 絜jié🔊

  clean

  12 strokes

• 绔kù🔊

  variant of 褲|裤[ku4]

  12 strokes

• 绞jiǎo🔊

  to twist (strands into a thread)

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 络luò🔊

  net-like object

  12 strokes

• 绚xuàn🔊

  adorned

  12 strokes

• 绒róng🔊

  velvet

  12 strokes

• 𬘡yīn🔊

  generative force

  12 strokes

• 絫lěi🔊

  variant of 累[lei3], to accumulate

  12 strokes

• 絮xù🔊

  cotton wadding

  12 strokes

• 绖dié🔊

  hempen band worn on the head or waist by a mourner

  12 strokes

• 统tǒng🔊

  to gather

  12 strokes

• 绛jiàng🔊

  purple-red

  12 strokes

• 絷zhí🔊

  to connect

  12 strokes

• 𫄧yán🔊

  cap tassels

  12 strokes

• 缂kè🔊

  used in 緙絲|缂丝[ke4 si1]

  12 strokes

• 缃xiāng🔊

  light yellow color

  12 strokes

• 缄jiān🔊

  (wooden) box

  12 strokes

• 缅miǎn🔊

  distant

  12 strokes

• 缆lǎn🔊

  cable

  12 strokes

• 缈miǎo🔊

  used in 縹緲|缥缈[piao1 miao3]

  12 strokes

• 缉jī🔊

  to seize

  12 strokes

• 缊yùn🔊

  hemp

  12 strokes

• 缋huì🔊

  multicolor

  12 strokes

• 缌sī🔊

  fine linen

  12 strokes

• 缎duàn🔊

  satin

  12 strokes

• 缏biàn🔊

  braid

  12 strokes

• 缑gōu🔊

  rope attached to a sword hilt

  12 strokes

• 缒zhuì🔊

  to let down with a rope

  12 strokes

• 缔dì🔊

  (archaic) to bind up inextricably

  12 strokes

• 缕lǚ🔊

  strand

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 缗mín🔊

  cord

  12 strokes

• 𦈕yú🔊

  net

  12 strokes

• 经jīng🔊

  classics

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 缠chán🔊

  to wind around

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 缝fèng🔊

  seam

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 绣xiù🔊

  to embroider; embroidery

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 缚fù🔊

  to bind

  13 strokes

• 绢juàn🔊

  thin, tough silk fabric

  13 strokes

• 𫄨chī🔊

  fine fibers of hemp

  13 strokes

• 𦈌shū🔊

  a kind of sackcloth

  13 strokes

• 綂tǒng🔊

  old variant of 統|统[tong3]

  13 strokes