抽丝 chōusī to reel silk Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 抽丝 抽絲 chōu//sī to reel silk To reel off or spin raw silk from cocoons; used generally for pulling out silk-like threads. slowly Used to describe things that progress very slowly, such as recovery from an illness. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.210 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.422 per million Cross-References Same as 拔丝 básīHas variant 拉丝 lāsī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
抽丝 抽絲 chōu//sī to reel silk To reel off or spin raw silk from cocoons; used generally for pulling out silk-like threads. slowly Used to describe things that progress very slowly, such as recovery from an illness. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.210 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.422 per million Cross-References Same as 拔丝 básīHas variant 拉丝 lāsī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
