抽丝
chōu sī
Pinyin

Definition

抽丝
 - 
chōu sī
  1. to spin silk

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

抽
chōu
  1. 1 to draw out
  2. 2 to pull out from in between
  3. 3 to remove part of the whole
  4. 4 (of certain plants) to sprout or bud
  5. 5 to whip or thrash
抽取
chōu qǔ
  1. 1 to extract
  2. 2 to remove
  3. 3 to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
抽屉
chōu ti
  1. 1 drawer
抽烟
chōu yān
  1. 1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)
抽奖
chōu jiǎng
  1. 1 to draw a prize
  2. 2 a lottery
  3. 3 a raffle
抽空
chōu kòng
  1. 1 to find the time to do sth
抽筋
chōu jīn
  1. 1 cramp
  2. 2 charley horse
  3. 3 to pull a tendon
抽风
chōu fēng
  1. 1 to ventilate
  2. 2 to induce a draft
  3. 3 spasm
  4. 4 convulsion
找抽
zhǎo chōu
  1. 1 (coll.) to look for trouble
抽出
chōu chū
  1. 1 to take out
  2. 2 to extract
抽动
chōu dòng
  1. 1 to twitch
  2. 2 to throb
  3. 3 a spasm
  4. 4 to extract and use
抽动症
chōu dòng zhèng
  1. 1 Tourette syndrome
抽噎
chōu yē
  1. 1 to sob
抽打
chōu dǎ
  1. 1 to whip
  2. 2 to flog
  3. 3 to thrash
抽插
chōu chā
  1. 1 to slide in and out
  2. 2 thrusting
抽搐
chōu chù
  1. 1 to twitch
抽查
chōu chá
  1. 1 random inspection
  2. 2 to do a spot check
抽样
chōu yàng
  1. 1 sample
  2. 2 sampling
抽检
chōu jiǎn
  1. 1 sampling
  2. 2 spot check
  3. 3 random test
抽气
chōu qì
  1. 1 to draw air out

Idioms (3)

抽丝剥茧
chōu sī bāo jiǎn
  1. 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
  2. 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝
bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī
  1. 1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
短中抽长
duǎn zhōng chōu cháng
  1. 1 to make the best of a bad job
  2. 2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)

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