蠶絲

Chinese

		silkworm	silk; thread; trace
trad. (蠶絲)		蠶	絲
simp. (蚕丝)		蚕	丝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cánsī

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˊ ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam⁴ si¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhâm-si / chhân-si

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cánsī
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˊ ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cánsih
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan²-ssŭ¹
    • Yale: tsán-sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsarnsy
    • Palladius: цаньсы (canʹsy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam⁴ si¹
    • Yale: chàahm sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam⁴ si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam⁴ xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm²¹ siː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhâm-si
    • Tâi-lô: tshâm-si
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhamsy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻²² si⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻²² si³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰam²³⁻³³ si⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻¹¹ si⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhân-si
    • Tâi-lô: tshân-si
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhansy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰan¹³⁻²² si⁴⁴/

Noun

蠶絲

1. natural silk

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蠶絲, 真絲
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	蠶絲
Cantonese	Hong Kong	蠶絲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蠶繭絲
Southern Min	Xiamen	娘仔絲
	Zhao'an	蠶絲
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	蠶仔絲
	Tainan	蠶仔絲
	Tainan (Anping)	蠶仔絲
Puxian Min	Putian	娘囝絲
	Xianyou	娘囝絲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	蠶絲
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	蠶絲

Dialectal synonyms of 蠶絲 (“natural silk”) [map]