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糸

mì

Character

What 糸 means

1. fine silk
2. Kangxi radical 120

Characters built on 小

These share the phonetic component 小 (xiǎo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 示shìto show; to reveal
• 隙xìcrack; crevice; gap or interval

Sounds the same

Read mì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 密dense; close; thick; intimate; close; (bound form) secret; confidential
• 秘secret; secretary
• 蜜honey
• 泌(bound form) to secrete
• 觅(literary) to seek; to find
• 幂(math) power; exponent; to cover with a cloth; cloth cover; veil
• 宓still; silent
• 谧(literary) quiet; peaceful; tranquil
• 嘧(phonetic) as in pyrimidine
• 汨name of a river, the southern tributary of Miluo river 汨罗江
• 冖"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 军
• 蓂used in 菥蓂