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絛
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
绦
🇨🇳

silk

HSK 10
Objects →Tools →Textiles
dí, tāo
ジュウ、ジョウ、トウ
さなだ
조
Components
Traditional (絛)
亻 person (side)+ 夂 go (slowly)+ 糸 silk =
絛 silk
亻
rén person (side)
夂
zhǐ go (slowly)
go
糸 Meaning component
mì silk
silk
Simplified (绦)
纟 silk 🇨🇳+ 条 strip =
绦 silk braid
纟 Meaning component
mì silk 🇨🇳
silk
silk
条 Phonetic component
tiáo strip
clause, condition
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Notes
Similar Characters
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Historical Evolution
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
絛
Regular
Modern
Chinese
绦 / 絛 [dí]
see 絛綸|绦纶[dí​lún]
绦 / 絛 [tāo]
braid; cord; sash
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (8)
绦虫 [tāo​chóng] #31,245
tapeworm
有钩绦虫 [yǒu​gōu​tāo​chóng]
tapeworm (Taenia solium)
无钩绦虫 [wú​gōu​tāo​chóng]
beef tapeworm
绦子 [tāo​zi]
silk ribbon or braid
绦带 [tāo​dài]
silk ribbon
绦纶 [dí​lún]
variant of 滌綸|涤纶[dí​lún]
绦虫纲 [tāo​chóng​gāng]
Cestoda (an order of flatworms)
丝绦 [sī​tāo]
silk waistband
JAPANESE WORDS (3)
条虫 [じょうちゅう] #196,260
tapeworm
サナダ虫 [さなだむし] #227,819
tapeworm
条虫類 [じょうちゅうるい] #280,913
cestodes