| 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 | |
| Japanese Kana: | 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 | |
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Radical 120 or radical silk (糸部) meaning 'silk' is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 823 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
糸 is also the 148th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the left component forms 纟 (simp.) and 糹 (trad.) being its associated indexing components.