絲
sī HSK7

silk, threads

丝 絲 sī
silk noun
the fine thread produced by a silkworm; textiles made of silk
strand noun
anything thin and long like a thread, such as wire, hair, or julienne strips of food
trace numeraladjective
a tiny bit; a very small amount, often used in set phrases like 一丝不苟 yī​sī​bù​gǒu or 丝毫 sī​háo
string instruments
(bound form) traditional Chinese stringed instruments, often appearing in the compound 丝竹 sī​zhú
tenth-of-a-milli
(bound form) a unit of length equal to one ten-thousandth (1/10,000), specifically a decimillimeter (0.1 mm or 丝米 sī​mǐ)
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,026th most common 152.9 per million
Movie subtitles
845th most common 143.0 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
56.3 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
80.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
丝
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7D72

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)