细
thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft; fine; delicate; trifling; (of a sound) quiet; frugal
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #388 U+7EC6
How 细 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
纟 (semantic, “silk”) + 田 (phonetic, tián)
How to remember it
fine · Heisig RSH #1091
thread + brains
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 田
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 田 (tián) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 田 sound component | tián | field, farm, arable land; cultivated |
| 甸 | diàn | suburbs of the capital; to govern; crops |
| 钿 | diàn | hairpin; gold-inlaid item; filigree |
Words containing 细
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中亚细亚 | Zhōng Yà xì yà | Central Asia |
| 细水长流 | xì shuǐ cháng liú | lit. thin streams flow forever; fig. economy will get you a long way; to work steadily at … |
| 小亚细亚 | Xiǎo Yà xì yà | Asia Minor; Anatolia |
| 心细如发 | xīn xì rú fà | (idiom) meticulous; very careful or attentive |
| 细化管理 | xì huà guǎn lǐ | micromanagement |
| 亚细安 | Yà xì ān | (Singapore, Malaysia) ASEAN |
| 细河区 | Xì hé Qū | Xihe, a district of Fuxin City 阜新市[Fu4 xin1 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 细明体 | Xì míng tǐ | Mincho narrow font |
| 亚细亚 | Yà xì yà | Asia |
| 细小病毒科 | xì xiǎo bìng dú kē | Parvoviridae, a family of animal viruses |
| 子细 | zǐ xì | variant of 仔細|仔细[zi3 xi4] |
| 细小病毒 | xì xiǎo bìng dú | parvovirus |
| 心细 | xīn xì | careful; scrupulous |
| 细心 | xì xīn | meticulous; careful; attentive |
| 细小 | xì xiǎo | tiny; fine; minute |
| 细化 | xì huà | to give a more granular level of detail; to elaborate; to refine; to become more different… |
| 细分 | xì fēn | to divide (into subgroups etc); to break down (into subcategories, subprocesses etc) |
| 细长 | xì cháng | slender |
| 细数 | xì shǔ | to enumerate; to review (events, experiences etc) in detail |
| 细语 | xì yǔ | to chat with a low voice |