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Mythic Mandarin

蚕丝 (cán sī): meaning and stroke order

蚕丝 (cán sī) means natural silk (secreted by silkworm).

蚕丝

Simplified
蚕丝
Traditional
蠶絲
Pinyin
cán sī

Stroke order of 蚕丝

蚕

  • cán silkworm
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 蠶

Stroke by stroke

丝

  • sī silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 絲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 蚕丝

  1. cán sī Traditional 蠶絲
    • natural silk (secreted by silkworm)

Radicals of the characters

蚕
Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 10 strokes · 天 on top, 虫 below
丝
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

蚕丝 in our stories

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  • 于是，她开始教人们种桑树、养蚕，再把蚕丝纺成线，织成布。

    yúshì tā kāishǐ jiāo rénmen zhòng sāngshù yǎng cán zài bǎ cánsī fǎng chéng xiàn zhī chéng bù

    So she began to teach people to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms, then to spin the silk into thread and weave it into cloth.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 蚕丝

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).