茧丝 (繭絲) jiǎnsī

  1. jiǎnsī noun a silk thread
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '繭絲' 1; Mathews 1931 '繭絲', p. 116)
  2. jiǎnsī verb to extort
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '繭絲' 2; Mathews 1931 '繭絲', p. 116)

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 26 Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 景德傳燈錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 9 Shen Seng Chuan 神僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 6 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayayasangraha (Genben Sapoduo Bu Lu She) 根本薩婆多部律攝 — count: 1
  • Scroll 63 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 1