丝

絲traditional

HSK 7–9#1558 by frequencyradical 一

sī["n","q"]

silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc

Measure word: 条

Examples

简的美丽丝毫不逊色于她母亲。

Jane is no less beautiful than her mother.

爱丽丝正在自己的房间里睡觉。

Alice is sleeping in her room.

Part of the HSK 7–9 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.