Characters › 纸
7 strokes · radical 纟 (silk) · traditional 紙
10 strokes · simplified 纸
A way to remember it
Silk beside 氏. Paper was made from rag and plant fibre, so the character was built from the thread radical rather than from wood.
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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.
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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.