糸

mì = mi + Ø4

fine silk / Kangxi radical 120

糸 = 小 + 幺 : In the space station's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe uses zero gravity to fulfill her lifelong dream of flying on a carpet like Aladdin. In the space station she doesn't have a carpet, but she has a large ace on which she sits. She uses a silken scarf as a turban, and she holds a daisy in her hand as magic wand.

糸 character breakdown

糸
- 幺
  - 厶
- 小
  - 亅
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏

幺

么

ya̅o = y + ao1

surname Yao

幺

么

ya̅o = y + ao1

youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout

幺 = 厶 : Mnemonic symbol from 幺点, ace: an ace card.

幺 = 厶 : Maud Younger is going to a poker tournament in the aorta. Before she enters, she hides an ace in her fake nose in front of the aorta.

小

xiǎo = xi + ao3

small / tiny / few / young

小 = 八 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).

Characters with 糸 as component

絮

xù = xu + Ø4

cotton wadding / fig. padding / long-winded

紊

wěn = w + (e)n3

involved / tangled / disorderly / confused / chaotic / Taiwan pr. [wen4]

紊 = 文 + 糸 : Willy Walrus (w) wants to go out, but his silken scarf (糸) got entangled (紊) in a disorderly (紊) heap of books (文) in the encampment ((e)n3).

素

sù = su + Ø4

raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever

素 = 龶 + 糸 : Susan Saint Bernard (su) has decided to become a vegan (素) and to let everyone know. In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she manufactures a fancy headdress (龶) in the form of a vegan flower (素) out of her own spider silk (糸) so that everyone who sees her instantly knows that she's vegan (素).

绝

絕

jué = ju + e2

to cut short / extinct / to disappear / to vanish / absolutely / by no means

绝 = 纟 + 色 : Just inside the elevator's kitchen Zeus and the silk worm are playing a dice game. The game is called "annihilation", and the loser is said to become extinct within 1000 years' time. They don't know yet that both gods and worms will be extinct due to the human race soon.

织

織

zhi̅ = zh + Ø1

to weave / to knit

织 = 只 + 纟 : James II of England (zh) founded the international knitting (织) organization (织) in front of the space station (Ø1). Together with him a silk worm (纟) and a cuttlefish (只) are knitting (织) the world's longest scarf.

繁

fán = f + an2

complicated / many / in great numbers / abbr. for 繁體|繁体[fan2 ti3], traditional form of Chinese characters

繁 = 敏 + 糸 : Frankenstein's Monster (f) sneezes without end in the anthill's kitchen (an2) after coming in. He doesn't know that he's allergic (敏) against his fine silk scarf (糸). How should he, since he doesn't have an immune system it seems complicated (繁) how this allergy should even work.

繁

緐

fán = f + an2

old variant of 繁[fan2]

紧

緊

jǐn = ji + (e)n3

tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money / to tighten

紧 = 収 + 糸 : In the encampment Joan of Arc is very tense to finally open her present. It is a radio receiver which has been tightly packed in fine silk. Finally when she's finally allowed she urgently opens the package.

絜

xié = xi + e2

marking line / pure / to regulate

絜

jié = ji + e2

clean

纂

zuǎn = zu + an3

(literary) to compile; to edit / (coll.) (hairstyle) bun; chignon (as 纂兒|纂儿[zuan3 r5]) / red silk ribbon / variant of 纘|缵[zuan3]

纂

篹

zuǎn = zu + an3