蚕丝 (蠶絲)
cán sī
Pinyin
Definition
蚕丝 (蠶絲)
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- natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 bean vermicelli
- 2 mung bean starch noodles
- 3 Chinese vermicelli
- 4 cellophane noodles
- 5 classifier: 把 bǎ
- 6 fan (loanword)
- 7 enthusiast for sb or sth
- 1 silk
- 2 thread
- 3 trace
- 4 (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips
- 5 classifier: 条 tiáo
- 6 classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc
- 1 loser (Internet slang)
- 1 Alice (name)
- 1 to spin silk
Idioms (11)
一丝一毫
- 1 one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit
- 2 an iota
一丝不挂
- 1 not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked
- 2 without a stitch of clothing
- 3 in one's birthday suit
一丝不苟
- 1 not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules
- 2 meticulous
- 3 not one hair out of place
吐丝自缚
- 1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- 2 hoist with his own petard
单丝不成线,独木不成林
- 1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)