7 strokes · radical 纟 (silk) · traditional 紙
10 strokes · simplified 纸
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.
Silk beside 氏. Paper was made from rag and plant fibre, so the character was built from the thread radical rather than from wood.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
paper (CL:张,沓); classifier for documents, letters etc
zhǐ — paper (CL:张,沓); classifier for documents, letters etc
Radical 纟 (silk) · 7 strokes · traditional 紙
10 strokes · simplified 纸
A way to remember itSilk beside 氏. Paper was made from rag and plant fibre, so the character was built from the thread radical rather than from wood.