Character: 絲
Modern (Beijing) reading: sī
Preclassic Old Chinese: sǝ
Classic Old Chinese: sǝ
Western Han Chinese: sǝ
Eastern Han Chinese: sjǝ
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjɨ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjɨ
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjɨ
Middle Chinese: sjɨ
English meaning : silk
Russian meaning[s]: 1) шелковая нить; шелк; шелковый; 2) нити; проволока; паутина; струйки; тонкие стружки; 3) струна; струнные музыкальные инструменты; 4) одна стотысячная; сотая часть миллиметра; ничтожное количество, иота; 5) тонкий узор; тонкий; 6) думы, вм. 思
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is ti. External data suggest rather *shǝ for OC; however, no modern dialect has preserved a special reflex of this phoneme (initial ch-).
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 8256
Karlgren code: 0974 a-c
Vietnamese reading: to'
Shijing occurrences: 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 24.3, 27.3_, 53.1, 53.2, 53.3, 58.1
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