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吐丝

tǔ sī

2-character word Traditional 吐絲

What 吐丝 means

1. (of spiders, caterpillars, silkworms etc) to extrude silk

The characters in 吐丝

• 吐tùto vomit; to throw up
• 丝sīsilk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips…

Words starting with 吐丝

• 吐丝自缚tǔ sī zì fùto spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising…

Sounds the same

Read tǔ sī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 土司sliced bread (loanword from "toast"); government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in…
• 吐司sliced bread (loanword from "toast")