丝 (絲) sī

1. sī noun silk
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '絲' n 1; Kroll 2015 '絲' 1; Unihan '絲')
2. sī measure word thread; trace
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (Guoyu '絲' n 4; Unihan '絲')
3. sī noun a thread
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '絲' n 3; Kroll 2015 '絲' 2)
4. sī adjective thin; slender
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '絲' adj 3; Kroll 2015 '絲' 2a)
5. sī adjective extremely small; minature
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '絲' 2b)
6. sī noun silk clothing; silk goods
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 丝织品 (Guoyu '絲' n 2; Kroll 2015 '絲' 3)
7. sī noun the string of a musical instrument
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '絲' n 5; Kroll 2015 '絲' 4)

Contained in

• 切成丝(切成絲) to grate; to shred (vegetable)
• 刺钢丝(刺鋼絲) barbed wire
• 摩丝(摩絲) hair mousse
• 严丝合缝(嚴絲合縫) to fit tightly ; to join seamlessly; to fit snugly
• 丝光椋鸟(絲光椋鳥) red-billed starling (Spodiopsar sericeus)
• 焊丝(焊絲) welding wire
• 微丝血管(微絲血管) capillary blood vessels
• 绞丝旁(絞絲旁) name of Kangxi radical 120
• 螺丝(螺絲) screw
• 纺丝(紡絲) to spin fiber; to spin silk; spinning; filature
• 饵丝(餌絲) a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
• 丝雨(絲雨) drizzle; fine rain
• 丝兰属(絲蘭屬) Yucca
• 丝线(絲線) thread; silk yarn
• 丝织物(絲織物) woven silk
• 柘丝(柘絲) silk from worms fed on Chinese mulberry leaves
• 银丝族(銀絲族) the older generation (respectful term); old folk; silver-haired generation
• 刨丝器(刨絲器) grater; shredder
• 游丝(游絲) gossamer; hairspring
• 丝绦(絲絛) silk waistband
• 缠丝玛瑙(纏絲瑪瑙) sardonyx (gemstone of brown-white striped chalcedony)
• 保险丝(保險絲) fuse wire; (electrical) fuse
• 爱丽丝(愛麗絲) Alice (name)
• 一丝不挂(一絲不掛) not wearing one thread; absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's birthday suit
• 吃螺丝(吃螺絲) (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words
• 纹丝(紋絲) tiny bit; a jot; whisker
• 无丝分裂(無絲分裂) amitosis
• 蕾丝花边(蕾絲花邊) lace border
• 真丝(真絲) silk; pure silk
• 蟠尾丝虫症(蟠尾絲蟲症) river blindness or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
• 丝袜(絲襪) stockings; pantyhose
• 熔断丝(熔斷絲) fuse wire
• 丝丝小雨(絲絲小雨) fine drizzle
• 蕾丝(蕾絲) lace (textiles)
• 丝柏(絲柏) cypress
• 铁杆粉丝(鐵桿粉絲) die-hard fan
• 螺丝粉(螺絲粉) gemelli (corkscrew shaped pasta)
• 丝织品(絲織品) a woven silk fabric
• 菟丝子(菟絲子) dodder (Cuscuta sinensis, a parasitic vine with seeds used in medicine)
• 有丝分裂(有絲分裂) mitosis
• 丝织(絲織) woven silk
• 微丝(微絲) microfilament
• 金额丝雀(金額絲雀) red-fronted serin (Serinus pusillus)
• 吐丝自缚(吐絲自縛) to spin a cocoon around oneself; enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
• 纹丝不动(紋絲不動) to not move a single jot
• 丝盘虫(絲盤蟲) Trichoplax adhaerens
• 常德丝弦(常德絲弦) Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments
• 拔丝(拔絲) wire drawing; candied floss (cooking); spun sugar or toffee (coating)
• 永不生锈的螺丝钉(永不生銹的螺絲釘) a screw that never rusts — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng 雷锋, to whom the metaphor is attributed

Also contained in

艾格尼丝·史沫特莱 、 爱丽丝泉

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• 卷九十五　志第四十四: 　食貨三 Volume 95 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 202
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 70
• 卷九十三　志第四十二: 　食貨一 Volume 93 Treatises 46: Finance and Economics 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 49
• 《卷十四‧糸部》 Scroll 14, Mì Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 28
• 卷六十七 志第四十三 輿服三 Volume 67 Treatises 43: Carriages and Clothing 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 18
• 第七十二回 Chapter 72 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 17
• 卷10　志第5　禮儀五 Volume 10 Treatises 5: Rites 5 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 16
• 卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 16
• 卷七十八 志第五十四 食貨二 Volume 78 Treatises 54: Finance and Economics 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 16
• 卷四十一　　　　志第三十一　　地理五 Volume 41 Treatises 35: Gepgraphy 5 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 15

Collocations

• 麻丝 (麻絲) 未有麻絲 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮運》 Ceremonial Usages; their Origins, Development, and Intention — count: 8
• 衣丝 (衣絲) 不衣絲麻 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八　人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 8
• 朱丝 (朱絲) 獻子以朱絲係玉二榖而禱曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 7
• 治丝 (治絲) 猶治絲而棼之也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
• 素丝 (素絲) 素絲五紽 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧羔羊 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Gao Yang — count: 6
• 丝麻 (絲麻) 雖有絲麻 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 6
• 兔丝 (兔絲) 上有兔絲 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十六　說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion — count: 6
• 丝衣 (絲衣) 絲衣 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧閔予小子之什‧絲衣 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Min Yu Xiao Zi - Si Yi — count: 5
• 丝纩 (絲纊) 丹漆絲纊竹箭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮器》 Rites in the Formation of Character — count: 5
• 漆丝 (漆絲) 厥貢漆絲 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 禹貢 Xia Shu - Tribute of Yu — count: 4