纱
Tap the pinyin to hear it
cotton yarn; muslin
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 糸 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 紗
- Common rank
- #1,876
- Unicode
- U+7EB1
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
yarn · Heisig RSH #2375
thread + 少 few
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 纱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 神秘面纱 | veil of mystery | |
| 透明硬纱 | organza (fabric) | |
| 头纱 | wedding veil; gauze headscarf or veil | |
| 面纱 | veil | |
| 纱门 | screen door | |
| 纱线 | yarn | |
| 纱布 | gauze | |
| 经纱 | warp (vertical thread in weaving) | |
| 黑纱 | black armband | |
| 管纱 | (textiles) cop | |
| 纱布口罩 | gauze mask | |
| 婚纱摄影 | wedding photos (done in studio, kit and caboodle taken care of by the studio) | |
| 麻纱 | linen or cotton fabric | |
| 乌纱帽 | black gauze hat (worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position); (fig.) official … | |
| 泡泡纱 | seersucker (cotton cloth with pattern of dimples) | |
| 纱支 | (textiles) yarn count (unit indicating the fineness of a yarn) (sometimes used loosely to … | |
| 轻纱 | light muslin; gauze | |
| 纱丽 | (loanword) sari | |
| 婚纱 | wedding dress | |
| 丢乌纱帽 | lit. to lose one's black hat; to be sacked from an official post |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 少 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound part | few, little; less; inadequate | |
| 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 省 | province; frugal; to save, to leave out | |
| 妙 | mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful | |
| 炒 | to boil, to fry, to roast, to sauté; to trade stock | |
| 抄 | copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize | |
| 秒 | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time | |
| 钞 | bank note, paper money; to counterfeit | |
| 吵 | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb | |
| 耖 | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |