| 絲 | [ sī ] silk, thread, trace, (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips, CL:條|条[tiao2], classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc |
| 絲光椋鳥 | [ sī guāng liáng ] (bird species of China) red-billed starling (Spodiopsar sericeus) |
| 絲囊 | [ sī náng ] spinneret |
| 絲巾 | [ sī jīn ] headscarf, kerchief, silk neckband |
| 絲帶 | [ sī daì ] ribbon |
| 絲柏 | [ sī bó ] cypress |
| 絲毫 | [ sī haó ] the slightest amount or degree, a bit |
| 絲毫不差 | [ sī haó bù chā ] accurate to perfection (idiom), precise to the finest detail |
| 絲氨酸 | [ sī ān suān ] serine (Ser), an amino acid |
| 絲狀 | [ sī zhuàng ] thread-like |
| 絲狀物 | [ sī zhuàng wù ] filament |
| 絲狀病毒 | [ sī zhuàng bìng dú ] filovirus |
| 絲瓜 | [ sī guā ] luffa (loofah) |
| 絲盤蟲 | [ sī pán chóng ] Trichoplax adhaerens (biology) |
| 絲竹 | [ sī zhú ] traditional Chinese musical instruments, music |
| 絲絛 | [ sī taō ] silk waistband |
| 絲絨 | [ sī róng ] velvet |
| 絲絲小雨 | [ sī sī yǔ ] fine drizzle |
| 絲綢 | [ sī choú ] silk cloth, silk |
| 絲綢之路 | [ sī choú zhī lù ] the Silk Road |
| 絲綢古路 | [ sī choú gǔ lù ] the ancient Silk Road, see also 絲綢之路|丝绸之路[Si1 chou2 zhi1 Lu4] |
| 絲綢織物 | [ sī choú zhī wù ] silk fabric |
| 絲網 | [ sī wǎng ] silk screen, screen (printing) |
| 絲綿 | [ sī mián ] silk floss, down |
| 絲線 | [ sī xiàn ] thread, silk yarn |
| 絲縷 | [ sī lǚ ] silk thread |
| 絲織品 | [ sī zhī pǐn ] item made from woven silk or rayon |
| 絲織物 | [ sī zhī wù ] woven silk fabric |
| 絲襪 | [ sī wà ] stockings, pantyhose |
| 絲足 | [ sī zú ] feet and legs in silk stockings (especially in the massage context) |
| 絲路 | [ sī lù ] the Silk Road, abbr. for 絲綢之路|丝绸之路[Si1 chou2 zhi1 Lu4] |
| 絲雨 | [ sī yǔ ] drizzle, fine rain |
| ⇒ 一絲一毫 | [ yī sī yī haó ] one thread, one hair (idiom); a tiny bit, an iota |
| ⇒ 一絲不掛 | [ yī sī bù guà ] not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked, without a stitch of clothing, in one's birthday suit |
| ⇒ 一絲不苟 | [ yī sī bù goǔ ] not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules, meticulous, not one hair out of place |
| ⇒ 乾煸土豆絲 | [ gān biān tǔ doù sī ] dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish) |
| ⇒ 人造絲 | [ rén zaò sī ] rayon |
| ⇒ 保險絲 | [ baǒ xiǎn sī ] fuse wire, (electrical) fuse |
| ⇒ 克絲鉗子 | [ kè sī qián zi ] wire cutting pincers |
| ⇒ 冷絲絲 | [ lěng sī sī ] a bit chilly |
| ⇒ 冷絲絲 | [ lěng sī sī ] a bit chilly |
| ⇒ 刀片鐵絲網 | [ daō piàn tiě sī wǎng ] razor wire |
| ⇒ 切成絲 | [ qiē chéng sī ] to grate, to shred (vegetable) |
| ⇒ 刨絲器 | [ baò sī qì ] grater, shredder |
| ⇒ 刺絲囊 | [ cì sī náng ] nematocyst, capsule of nettle cells of medusa or anemone |
| ⇒ 刺絲胞 | [ cì sī baō ] cnidocyte, nettle cell of medusa or anemone |
| ⇒ 刺絲胞動物 | [ cì sī baō dòng wù ] Cnidaria (animal phylum including jellyfish and sessile polyps) |
| ⇒ 刺鋼絲 | [ cì gāng sī ] barbed wire |
| ⇒ 刻絲 | [ kè sī ] variant of 緙絲|缂丝[ke4 si1] |
| ⇒ 十字絲 | [ shí zì sī ] crosshairs |
| ⇒ 千絲萬縷 | [ qiān sī wàn lǚ ] linked in countless ways |
| ⇒ 吃螺絲 | [ chī luó sī ] (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words (Tw) |
| ⇒ 吐絲 | [ tǔ sī ] (of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk |
| ⇒ 吐絲自縛 | [ tǔ sī zì fù ] to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising, hoist with his own petard |
| ⇒ 單絲不成線，獨木不成林 | [ dān sī bù chéng xiàn dú mù bù chéng lín ] one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom) |
| ⇒ 噴絲頭 | [ pēn sī toú ] spinneret, extrusion nozzle |
| ⇒ 嚴絲合縫 | [ yán sī hé fèng ] to fit tightly (idiom), to join seamlessly, to fit snugly |
| ⇒ 土豆絲 | [ tǔ doù sī ] julienned potato |
| ⇒ 屌絲 | [ sī ] loser (Internet slang) |
| ⇒ 常德絲弦 | [ cháng dé sī xián ] Changde sixian, theatrical folk music style with singing in Changde dialect accompanied by traditional string instruments |
| ⇒ 廠絲 | [ chǎng sī ] filature silk |
| ⇒ 微絲 | [ weī sī ] microfilament |
| ⇒ 微絲血管 | [ weī sī xuè guǎn ] capillary blood vessels |
| ⇒ 愛莉絲 | [ aì lì sī ] Iris (name) |
| ⇒ 愛麗絲 | [ aì lì sī ] Alice (name) |
| ⇒ 愛麗絲泉 | [ aì lì sī quán ] Alice Springs, town in central Australia |
| ⇒ 愛麗絲漫遊奇境記 | [ aì lì sī màn yoú qí jìng jì ] Alice in Wonderland |
| ⇒ 慕絲 | [ mù sī ] mousse (loanword) |
| ⇒ 戈氏金絲燕 | [ gē shì jīn sī yàn ] (bird species of China) Germain's swiftlet (Aerodramus germani) |
| ⇒ 抽絲 | [ choū sī ] to spin silk |
| ⇒ 抽絲剝繭 | [ choū sī baō jiǎn ] lit. to spin silk from cocoons, fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom) |
| ⇒ 拉絲模 | [ lā sī mó ] die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter) |
| ⇒ 拔絲 | [ bá sī ] wire drawing, candied floss (cooking), spun sugar or toffee (coating) |
| ⇒ 摩絲 | [ mó sī ] hair mousse (loanword) |
| ⇒ 有絲分裂 | [ yoǔ sī fēn liè ] mitosis |
| ⇒ 柘絲 | [ zhè sī ] silk from worms fed on 柘[zhe4] leaves |
| ⇒ 椰絲 | [ yē sī ] shredded coconut |
| ⇒ 水絲 | [ shuǐ sī ] (silver) of low purity, low grade |
| ⇒ 永不生銹的螺絲釘 | [ yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīng ] a "screw that never rusts" — sb who selflessly and wholeheartedly serves the Communist Party, like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1], to whom the metaphor is attributed |
| ⇒ 治絲益棼 | [ zhì sī yì fén ] lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom), fig. to try to help but end up making things worse |
| ⇒ 游絲 | [ yoú sī ] gossamer, hairspring |
| ⇒ 焊絲 | [ hàn sī ] welding wire |
| ⇒ 無絲分裂 | [ wú sī fēn liè ] amitosis |
| ⇒ 熔斷絲 | [ róng duàn sī ] fuse wire |
| ⇒ 熟絲 | [ shú sī ] silk raw material (prepared by boiling in soap) |
| ⇒ 燈絲 | [ dēng sī ] filament (in a lightbulb) |
| ⇒ 生絲 | [ shēng sī ] raw silk |
| ⇒ 生薑絲 | [ shēng jiāng sī ] shredded ginger |
| ⇒ 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲 | [ bìng laí rú shān daǒ bìng qù rú choū sī ] sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly |
| ⇒ 真絲 | [ zhēn sī ] silk, pure silk |
| ⇒ 短嘴金絲燕 | [ duǎn zuǐ jīn sī yàn ] (bird species of China) Himalayan swiftlet (Aerodramus brevirostris) |
| ⇒ 碧昂絲 | [ bì áng sī ] Beyoncé (1981-), American pop singer |
| ⇒ 竹絲雞 | [ zhú sī jī ] black-boned chicken, silky fowl, silkie, Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson, see also 烏骨雞|乌骨鸡[wu1 gu3 ji1] |
| ⇒ 粉絲 | [ fěn sī ] bean vermicelli, mung bean starch noodles, Chinese vermicelli, cellophane noodles, CL:把[ba3], fan (loanword), enthusiast for sb or sth |
| ⇒ 紋絲 | [ wén sī ] tiny bit, a jot, whisker |
| ⇒ 紋絲不動 | [ wén sī bù dòng ] to not move a single jot (idiom) |
| ⇒ 紋絲兒 | [ wén sī ] erhua variant of 紋絲|纹丝[wen2 si1] |
| ⇒ 紡絲 | [ fǎng sī ] to spin synthetic fiber, to spin silk, spinning, filature |
| ⇒ 絲絲小雨 | [ sī sī yǔ ] fine drizzle |
| ⇒ 經絲彩色顯花 | [ jīng sī caǐ sè xiǎn huā ] warp brocade, woven fabric with single woof but colored warp |
| ⇒ 緙絲 | [ kè sī ] kesi or k’o-ssu, Chinese silk tapestry woven in a pictorial design |
| ⇒ 纏絲瑪瑙 | [ chán sī mǎ naǒ ] sardonyx (gemstone of brown-white striped chalcedony) |
| ⇒ 肉絲 | [ roù sī ] shredded meat, shredded pork |
| ⇒ 艾格尼絲b7史沫特萊 | [ aì gé ní sī shǐ mò tè laí ] Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side |
| ⇒ 花絲 | [ huā sī ] stalk (filament) of stamen |
| ⇒ 菌絲 | [ jūn sī ] mycelium, hypha |
| ⇒ 菟絲子 | [ tù sī zǐ ] dodder (Cuscuta sinensis, a parasitic vine with seeds used in medicine) |
| ⇒ 葫蘆絲 | [ hú lú sī ] hulusi, aka cucurbit flute (a kind of free reed wind instrument) |
| ⇒ 蕾絲 | [ leǐ sī ] lace (loanword) (textiles) |
| ⇒ 蕾絲花邊 | [ leǐ sī huā biān ] lace border (loanword) |
| ⇒ 蕾絲邊 | [ leǐ sī biān ] lesbian (slang) (loanword) |
| ⇒ 藕斷絲連 | [ oǔ duàn sī lián ] lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another |
| ⇒ 蛛絲馬跡 | [ zhū sī mǎ jì ] lit. spider's thread and horse track, tiny hints (of a secret), traces, clue |
| ⇒ 螺絲 | [ luó sī ] screw |
| ⇒ 螺絲刀 | [ luó sī daō ] screwdriver, CL:把[ba3] |
| ⇒ 螺絲帽 | [ luó sī maò ] nut (female component of nut and bolt) |
| ⇒ 螺絲母 | [ luó sī mǔ ] nut (female component of nut and bolt) |
| ⇒ 螺絲粉 | [ luó sī fěn ] gemelli (corkscrew shaped pasta) |
| ⇒ 螺絲起子 | [ luó sī qǐ zi ] screwdriver |
| ⇒ 螺絲釘 | [ luó sī dīng ] screw |
| ⇒ 螺絲鑽 | [ luó sī zuàn ] auger, gimlet, screwdriver (cocktail) |
| ⇒ 蟠尾絲蟲 | [ pán weǐ sī chóng ] Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans |
| ⇒ 蟠尾絲蟲症 | [ pán weǐ sī chóng zhèng ] "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus |
| ⇒ 蠶絲 | [ cán sī ] natural silk (secreted by silkworm) |
| ⇒ 血絲 | [ xuè sī ] wisps of blood, visible veins, (of eyes) bloodshot |
| ⇒ 貝婭特麗克絲 | [ beì yà tè lì kè sī ] Beatrix (name) |
| ⇒ 走鋼絲 | [ zoǔ gāng sī ] to walk a tightrope (literally or figuratively) |
| ⇒ 軸絲 | [ zhoú sī ] axoneme (long thread of nerve cell) |
| ⇒ 酸辣土豆絲 | [ suān là tǔ doù sī ] hot and sour shredded potato |
| ⇒ 金絲燕 | [ jīn sī yàn ] Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup |
| ⇒ 金絲猴 | [ jīn sī hoú ] golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) |
| ⇒ 金絲雀 | [ jīn sī què ] canary |
| ⇒ 金額絲雀 | [ jīn é sī què ] (bird species of China) red-fronted serin (Serinus pusillus) |
| ⇒ 銀絲捲 | [ yín sī juǎn ] yin si juan, steamed bun from Shandong province with hand-drawn dough threads folded over |
| ⇒ 銀絲族 | [ yín sī zú ] the older generation (respectful term), old folk, silver-haired generation |
| ⇒ 銅絲 | [ tóng sī ] copper wire |
| ⇒ 鋼絲 | [ gāng sī ] steel wire, tightrope |
| ⇒ 鋼絲繩 | [ gāng sī shéng ] hawser, steel rope |
| ⇒ 鋼絲鋸 | [ gāng sī jù ] jigsaw (saw with steel wire blade) |
| ⇒ 鐵桿粉絲 | [ tiě gǎn fěn sī ] die-hard fan |
| ⇒ 鐵絲 | [ tiě sī ] iron wire, CL:根[gen1], subway enthusiast (abbr. for 地鐵粉絲|地铁粉丝[di4 tie3 fen3 si1]), railway enthusiast (abbr. for 鐵路粉絲|铁路粉丝[tie3 lu4 fen3 si1]) |
| ⇒ 鐵絲網 | [ tiě sī wǎng ] wire netting, CL:道[dao4] |
| ⇒ 雨絲 | [ yǔ sī ] drizzle, fine rain |
| ⇒ 青絲 | [ qīng sī ] fine black hair, dried plum (sliced, as cake ingredient) |
| ⇒ 餌絲 | [ ěr sī ] a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province |
| ⇒ 髮絲 | [ fà sī ] hair (on the head) |
| ⇒ 魚香肉絲 | [ yú xiāng roù sī ] pork strips stir-fried with yuxiang 魚香|鱼香[yu2 xiang1] |
| ⇒ 鹹絲絲 | [ xián sī sī ] slightly salty |
| ⇒ 鹹絲絲 | [ xián sī sī ] slightly salty |
| ⇒ 鹹絲絲兒 | [ xián sī sī ] erhua variant of 鹹絲絲|咸丝丝[xian2 si1 si1] |
| ⇒ 鹹絲絲兒 | [ xián sī sī ] erhua variant of 鹹絲絲|咸丝丝[xian2 si1 si1] |