丝毫

• 拼音: sī háo
• 汉字拆解: 丝 = pictograph of twisted silk threads — fine, minimal; 毫 = 高 (tall) + 毛 (hair) — a fine hair; a tiny traditional unit of measurement

含义

The slightest bit; a tiny amount; not in the least. Used almost exclusively in negative constructions to emphasise the complete absence of something.

A formal intensifier derived from two units of extreme smallness — 丝 (silk thread) and 毫 (a fine hair). Always pairs with negation (丝毫不/没有) to assert that something is entirely absent. Equivalent to not in the slightest or not one iota in English. Common in formal writing, legal language, and emphasis-heavy speech.

例句

1. 他面对质疑时神情坦然，丝毫不见慌乱，展现出极为扎实的心理素质。
2. 经过两年的精心筹备，这场音乐会在技术层面没有出现丝毫差错。
3. 尽管外界压力巨大，她对自己的研究方向仍然丝毫未有动摇。

用法指南

语境: emphasis, formal writing, literary

语气: emphatic

正确说法

• 调查组经过三个月的深入核查，发现账目记录丝毫没有异常，相关指控完全站不住脚。(After three months of thorough investigation, the inquiry team found not the slightest irregularity in the accounts, rendering the accusations entirely groundless.)
• 这位年逾八旬的学者思维依然敏锐，在学术讨论中对细节的把握与年轻人相比丝毫不逊色。(This scholar, now past eighty, remains as sharp as ever, and in academic discussions his grasp of detail is in no way inferior to that of younger researchers.)

错误说法

• 避免将 丝毫 用于肯定句中表示 '很少' — 丝毫 is used almost exclusively in negative constructions to mean 'not the slightest'; in affirmative contexts expressing small amounts, use 些许 or 一点 instead

起源与历史

丝 (silk thread, extremely fine) + 毫 (a fine hair, a tiny unit of measurement) — both components convey extreme minuteness; together they intensify the sense of negligible quantity

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal