TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 糸 + 糸
Han characterEdit
絲 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火女戈火 (VFVIF), four-corner 22993, composition ⿰糹糸)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 924, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27448
- Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3401, character 1
- Unihan data for U+7D72
See alsoEdit
ChineseEdit
| - | ||
|---|---|---|
| trad. | 絲 | |
| simp. | 丝 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): si1
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sṳ̂
- Min Dong (BUC): sĭ
- Min Nan (POJ): si
- Wu (WT Romanisation): sr (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙ
- Wade-Giles: szu1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
- IPA (key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: si1
- Yale: sī
- Cantonese Pinyin: si1
- IPA (key): /siː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ̂
- IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /sɨ²⁴/
- Romanisations:
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭ
- IPA (key): /si⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- WT Romanisation: sr (T1)
- IPA (key): /sz̩⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (絲, reconstructed) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character (絲), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
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Initial: 心 (16) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 息兹切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /sɨ/ | /si/ | /siə/ | /sɨ/ | /sɨ/ | /sĭə/ | /sie/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (絲, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 絲 | sī | ‹ si › | /*[s]ə/ | silk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 絲 | 12003 | 絲 | 之 | 0 | 思 | /*slɯ/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NounEdit
絲
CompoundsEdit
JapaneseEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
絲 (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)
See alsoEdit
- 蠶 (누에 잠, jam) silkworm
- 蛹 (번데기 용, yong) pupa
- 繭 (고치 견, gyeon) cocoon
- 絹 (명주 견, gyeon) silk
- 絲 (명주, 실 사, sir, sil) silk, thread
- 桑 (뽕나무 상, sang) mulberry