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.

• 绪xù🔊

  beginnings

  11 strokes

• 绮qǐ🔊

  beautiful

  11 strokes

• 绯fēi🔊

  dark red

  11 strokes

• 绰chuò🔊

  (bound form) ample; spacious

  11 strokes

• 绱shàng🔊

  to sole a shoe

  11 strokes

• 绲gǔn🔊

  cord

  11 strokes

• 绵mián🔊

  silk floss

  11 strokes

• 绶shòu🔊

  cord on a seal

  11 strokes

• 绸chóu🔊

  (light) silk

  11 strokes

• 绹táo🔊

  bind

  11 strokes

• 绺liǔ🔊

  skein

  11 strokes

• 绻quǎn🔊

  used in 繾綣|缱绻[qian3 quan3]

  11 strokes

• 综zōng🔊

  (bound form) to synthesize; to combine

  11 strokes

• 绽zhàn🔊

  to burst open

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• 绾wǎn🔊

  bind up

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• 缀zhuì🔊

  to sew

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• 缁zī🔊

  Buddhists

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• 𦈏mín🔊

  old variant of 緡|缗[min2]

  11 strokes

• 𬘬qiàn🔊

  dark red color (of silk product)

  11 strokes

• 𬘭chēn🔊

  (literary) to stop

  11 strokes

• 丝sī🔊

  silk

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 编biān🔊

  to weave

  HSK 4

  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

• 絜jié🔊

  clean

  12 strokes

• 絫lěi🔊

  variant of 累[lei3], to accumulate

  12 strokes

• 絮xù🔊

  cotton wadding

  12 strokes

• 絷zhí🔊

  to connect

  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

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• 缌sī🔊

  fine linen

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• 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