糸
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糸 (U+7CF8) "silk"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mì
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄧˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	mih
Wade–Giles:	mi4
Cantonese Yale:	mihk
Jyutping:	mik6
JapaneseKana:	ベキ beki ミャク myaku (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	멱 myeok
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left)絞絲旁/绞丝旁 jiǎosīpáng (Bottom)絞絲底/绞丝底 jiǎosīdǐ
Japanese name(s):	糸/いと ito (Left) 糸偏/いとへん itohen
Hangul:	가는 실 ganeun sil
Stroke order animation

Radical 120 orradical silk (糸部) meaning"silk" is one of the 29Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6strokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 823 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

糸 is also the 148th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China, with the left component forms纟 (simp.) and糹 (trad.) being its associated indexing components.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Small seal script character

丝 (the simplified form of絲) falls underradical 1 (一).

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  Traditional printing form of糸 as a left component
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  Preferred stroke order of the left component form糹 inregular script
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  Stroke order of the simplified form纟

This radical character takes different forms in different languages and characters.

In traditional typefaces, regardless of the position of the radical character, the two turning strokes are broken into two respectively to adapt to the carving ofmovable type systems, and there is usually a gap between the second and the third strokes, and the middle stroke of the last three strokes is a vertical line and is written prior to the rest two strokes (middle-left-right). In actual handwriting, however, when the radical character is used as a left component, the last three strokes are more often written as dots from left to right (糹) rather than middle-left-right, especially inregular script.

Currently, when used independently or as a bottom component (as in索,繁, etc.), the discontinuous turning strokes are merged into one, and a hook is added to the end of the vertical line to imitate the character's handwriting form in both printedSimplified Chinese andTraditional Chinese. When used as a left component, it is simplified as纟 in Simplified Chinese, which is derived from thecursive form of糹. The standard printing form of the traditional left component form糹 is also altered to imitate the handwriting form, and the last three strokes are also written left-to-right. In addition, in mainland China'sGuo Biao traditional Chinese characters, the first dot in the last three strokes of糹 tilts to the left, while in Taiwan'sStandard Form of National Characters, all three dots are written rightward. The more traditional typeface form糸 is still widely used in Traditional Chinese publication

The traditional form remains standard in modern Japanese and Korean printing typefaces, while in handwriting, both forms are acceptable.

The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji.^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987).Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York:Abbeville Press.ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009)."Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets"(PDF).CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.).Sebastopol, Calif.:O'Reilly Media.ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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