字の旅3,000 years in four forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE京津4487 合28401 無名組

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

部首Radical · in Textiles, Plants & Food

糸

糸 thread, silk, connection

いと ito · as a side part いとへん itohen

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Your ink in 糸0% painted · 0 of 73 familiar

Origin · sourced

Pictogram象形

A skein of silk.

Source: Wiktionary, 糸 (rev. 93764053), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Everything is connected! This radical represents the invisible threads that tie us together—our relationships, the fine "silk" of our words, and the intricate weaving of our personal histories. When you see it, think of delicate work, strong connections, and the meticulous process of building something great one small strand at a time. It brings a sense of beauty, unity, and infinite detail to all its characters.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates thread and yarn, silk production, weaving and sewing, social and physical connections, or the concept of being "fine" and meticulous.

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What it grows into

Built from 糸, with sourced origins

系lineageケイ
手 + 糸
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
終endシュウ · おわる
糸 + 冬sound
Originally a pictogram (象形), 夂 (definition 2) – the knot at the end of a cord. Later reformulated as a phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糹 + phonetic 冬.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
細daintyサイ · ほそい
糸 + 囟sound
The right component is etymologically unrelated to 田 in which it was corrupted to after the Han dynasty.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Every kanji with 糸 as its radical

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