"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

纟 character breakdown

The character 纟 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 纟 as component

to wind / to coil (thread) / to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour / to confuse / to perplex

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) and the silk worm (纟) want to pay their respect to Tang Yao (尧), so they coil up (绕) the silkworm's silk in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) to manufacture some fine clothes for Tang Yao while he waits for them to be finished.
variant of 繞|绕[rao4], to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) and the silk worm (纟) want to pay their respect to Tang Yao (尧), so they coil up (绕) the silkworm's silk in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) to manufacture some fine clothes for Tang Yao while he waits for them to be finished.
continuous / to interpret / to unravel / to draw silk (old)

= + : Maud Younger (y) finds 金星 (夅) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but he is entangled in a very long silk thread. Maud has to unravel (绎) him by continuously (绎) pulling on the silk worm (纟) and the silken thread it produced.
to hand in / to hand over / to seize

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is happily playing her ancient musical instrument (敫) in the aorta (ao3) as the silk worm (纟) comes by to collect the taxes. Because Joan of Arc has no money on her she has no other choice but to hand over (缴) the instrument to pay her taxes (缴).
to withdraw / to pull back / to contract / to shrink / to reduce / abbreviation / also pr. [su4]

= 宿 + : The silk worm (纟) heard that there is a new hostel (宿) in front of the observatory (o1) and wants to check it out, but as she notices that the hostel is run by Susan Saint Bernard she slowly but steadily retreats (缩).
to bind / to tie / Taiwan pr. [fu2]

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) is binding (缚) a silk worm (纟) around the black board (尃) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) multiple times.
a braid or queue / to plait

= + : To prepare for battle Brunhilde (bi) is braiding (辫) her hair in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She does not only include the silk from a silk worm (纟) in her braids, but also the pungent hot kimchi (辡) from two kimchi vases.
to seize / to arrest / Taiwan pr. [qi4]
to stitch finely
velvet / woolen

= + : Rachel Rhinoceros (ru) wants to kill all the silk worms (纟) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) to make a velvet (绒) vest for herself. She will need a lot of worms, so she prepared a whole firearm locker full of guns (戎) for her task.
to sew / to stitch

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is on a blind date (逢) with the silk worm (纟) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). The date goes very smoothly, the silk worm even sews (缝) Frankenstein new underpants.
seam / crack / narrow slit / CL:道[dao4]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is on a blind date (逢) with the silk worm (纟). In engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) he secretly inspects the panties the silk worm made for him and is amazed as he finds out that the panties are without any seams (缝).
cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is foreseeing the silkworm's (纟) future in the anthill's kitchen (an2) using the Book of Changes (彖). The book says that the silk worm has great karma (缘) and will lead a long and fulfilled life.
silk floss / continuous / soft / weak / mild-mannered (dialect)
old variant of 綿|绵[mian2] / cotton
rope / CL:根[gen1]

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is loosing a rope (绳) pulling contest in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) against a silk worm (纟) and a toad (黾).
orange color / used in 絪縕|𬘡缊[yin1 yun1]
generative force / orange color
hemp / vague / mysterious

= + : Yu the Great (yu) keeps the silk worm (纟) as a prisoner in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). From time to time she feeds her prisoner (昷) a little bit of hemp (缊).
to sew / to stitch together / to combine / to link / to connect / to put words together / to compose / to embellish

= + : The silk worm (纟) wanted to get a different cocoon this time, so Julian Giant Squid (zhu) helps him to stitch together (缀) a cocoon made out of tiny mattresses (叕). After the silk worm entered the cocoon the Julian Giant Squid hangs it up in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4).

Words with 纟

纟 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 纟

纟 currently does not appear in any sentence.