绸綢 in English

Measure word

• 匹 pǐ (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc... attested

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 綢, the traditional character: 绸 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Small seal script
• See all 4 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 丝绸之路形成的初衷并非是贸易。

  The original purpose of the Silk Road was not for trade.

• 丝绸是很珍贵的。

  Silk is very precious.

• 他们主要输出的产品是纺织品，尤其以丝绸和绵为主。

  Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.

• 你最好未雨绸缪。

  You had better keep your money for a rainy day.

• 你的丝绸长袍呢？

  Where are your silk gowns?

• 她穿著华丽的丝绸服饰。

  She was dressed in rich silks.

• 未雨绸缪。

  Save for a rainy day.

• 海水蓝蓝的，远远看去像一大片丝绸铺开。

  The sea is deep blue, and from afar it looks like a vast sheet of silk spread out.

All example sentences with 绸