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.

• 累lèi🔊

  tired

  HSK 1

  11 strokes

• 组zǔ🔊

  to form

  HSK 2

  11 strokes

• 维wéi🔊

  to preserve

  11 strokes

• 绿lǜ🔊

  green

  HSK 2

  11 strokes

• 终zhōng🔊

  end

  11 strokes

• 细xì🔊

  thin or slender

  HSK 4

  11 strokes

• 绳shéng🔊

  rope

  11 strokes

• 绫líng🔊

  damask

  11 strokes

• 绊bàn🔊

  to trip

  11 strokes

• 绐dài🔊

  to cheat

  11 strokes

• 续xù🔊

  to continue

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 绷bēng🔊

  variant of 繃|绷[beng1]

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 䌷chóu🔊

  silk

  11 strokes

• 䌹jiǒng🔊

  monotone garment with no lining

  11 strokes

• 绂fú🔊

  ribbon for a seal

  11 strokes

• 绁xiè🔊

  variant of 紲|绁[xie4]

  11 strokes

• 绅shēn🔊

  member of gentry

  11 strokes

• 纻zhù🔊

  variant of 苧|苎[zhu4]

  11 strokes

• 绍shào🔊

  to continue

  11 strokes

• 绀gàn🔊

  violet or purple

  11 strokes

• 绋fú🔊

  heavy rope

  11 strokes

• 绌chù🔊

  crimson silk

  11 strokes

• 绩jì🔊

  to spin (hemp etc)

  11 strokes

• 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

  11 strokes

• 绾wǎn🔊

  bind up

  11 strokes

• 缀zhuì🔊

  to sew

  11 strokes

• 缁zī🔊

  Buddhists

  11 strokes

• 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

• 给gěi🔊

  to

  HSK 1

  12 strokes

• 绑bǎng🔊

  to tie

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 丝sī🔊

  silk

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 编biān🔊

  to weave

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 结jié🔊

  knot

  HSK 4

  12 strokes