thread / string / wire / line / CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1] / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)

线 = + : Mnemonic symbol: barbed wire.

线 = + : The silk worm wants to use the floating tank in the anthill's bathroom, but there's already Marie Curie inside—and she secured the tank by setting up barbed wire all around it.

線 character breakdown

spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic)

= + : Cupid (qu) opened a hot spring (泉) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) by connecting a water fountain (水) with the anthill's heating system. To mark his hot spring as a place of peace he set up a white flag (白) at the side of the spring.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 線 as component

線 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 線

busy (telephone line)
main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme
half-way line / median line
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
(music) staff / stave
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
beta ray (electron stream from radioactive decay)
(slang) cleavage / (palmistry) business line
quadratic curve (geometry) / conic
hatched lines / cross-hatched graphic pattern
crosswalk / pedestrian crossing with zebra stripes
foreshadowing (literary device)
to get the lines crossed

Sentences with 線

線 currently does not appear in any sentence.