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繊

Level XII of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 1559 / 2,608

Fiber

On’yomi
せん
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
糸 Silk (Kangxi 120)

Rarer in this ranking, but still part of the 2,608-character published set.

More common than 荘 (Villa), less common than 啓 (Enlighten).

Thread on the left tangles with a spear stuck in a drunkard on the right — the thinnest fiber of thread wraps around the spear that the drunkard dropped.

In words

繊維 せんい fibre;fiber;textileN1
化繊 かせん synthetic fibresN1

繊 is rank 1559 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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