| 617 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 885 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 688 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 2017 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 57 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 880 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1715 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1877 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 2042 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1866 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1606 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3107 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1589 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2170 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 529 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 32869 | Morohashi |
| 2457 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5290 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 523 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 562 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 901 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
2272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
- 蚕業 【サンギョウ】 sericulture
- 養蚕 【ヨウサン】 sericulture, silkworm culture, silkworm raising
- 秋蚕 【シュウサン】 autumn silkworms, fall silkworms
Kun reading compounds
- 蚕 【かいこ】 silkworm (Bombyx mori)
- 蚕蛾 【かいこが】 silkworm moth, silk moth (Bombyx mori)
- 三眠蚕 【さんみんかいこ】 three-molt silkworm
- 蚕糞 【こくそ】 silkworm droppings
- 蚕玉 【こだま】 guardian deity of silkworms
- 三眠蚕 【さんみんかいこ】 three-molt silkworm
- 桑蚕 【くわこ】 wild silkworm moth (Bombyx mandarina)
Readings
- Korean:
- cheon, jam
Spanish
- gusano de seda
Portuguese
- bicho-da-seda
French
- ver à soie
| 3171 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6d4.8 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-4-6 | SKIP code |
| 1013.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-29 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 8695 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 糸 【シ】 thread, 0.0001, one ten-thousandth
- 糸雨 【シウ】 drizzle, light rain, fine rain
- 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
- 金糸 【キンシ】 gold thread
Kun reading compounds
- 糸 【いと】 thread, yarn, string
- 糸口 【いとぐち】 beginning, start, first step, clue, lead, hint, thread end
- 横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
- 生糸 【きいと】 raw silk thread
Readings
- Korean:
- sa
Spanish
- hilo
- hebra
- cuerda
Portuguese
- contexto
French
- fil
| 83 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 75 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 27 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 699 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3492 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 113 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 807 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 720 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 242 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 242 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 409 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1503 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2703 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1379 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1866 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1345 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 27221 | Morohashi |
| 2179 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4431 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1333 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1431 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 58 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2741 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6a0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-3 | SKIP code |
| 4-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 2290.3 | Four corner code |
| 2090.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-69 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7cf8 | Unicode hex code |