绸
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(light) silk; CL:匹[pi3]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 糸 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 綢
- Common rank
- #2,900
- Unicode
- U+7EF8
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
silk fabric · Heisig RSH #2377
thread + lap
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 绸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丝绸之路 | Silk Road | |
| 丝绸古路 | the ancient Silk Road; see also 絲綢之路|丝绸之路[Si1 chou2 zhi1 Lu4] | |
| 丝绸织物 | silk fabric | |
| 塔夫绸 | taffeta | |
| 绸子 | silk fabric; silk; CL:匹[pi3] | |
| 丝绸 | silk (cloth) | |
| 未雨绸缪 | lit. before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); fig. to pla… | |
| 薄绸 | light silk; silk chiffon | |
| 府绸 | poplin (cotton cloth used for shirts) | |
| 绵绸 | rough-textured fabric of waste silk | |
| 绸缪 | to be sentimentally attached to sb or sth | |
| 绸缎 | satin; silk fabric | |
| 绫罗绸缎 | (idiom) silk and satin |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 周 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 周 sound part | Zhou dynasty; circumference | |
| 调 | tune, melody, key; to transfer, to exchange | |
| 雕 | to carve, to engrave; eagle, vulture | |
| 稠 | crowded, dense; viscous, thick | |
| 凋 | withered, fallen; exhausted | |
| 赒 | to give to charity; to give alms | |
| 鲷 | porgy; Pagrosomus major | |
| 啁 | to chirp, to twitter | |
| 惆 | distressed, regretful, sad | |
| 碉 | watchtower | |
| 椆 | a species of tree resistant to cold weather | |
| 蜩 | cicada, broad locust |