thin or slender

finely particulate; thin and soft; fine; delicate; trifling; (of a sound) quiet; frugal

silk thread (纟) + sound (田) = fine and delicate

The silk radical (纟) evokes the slender, delicate threads spun from a cocoon — the very image of fineness. 田 mainly lends the sound xì here; the meaning rides entirely with the thread.

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Silk threadSemantic

这根线很,用起来很方便。

zhè gēn xiàn hěn xì, yòng qǐ lái hěn fāng biàn。

This thread is very thin, and it is convenient to use.

她的手指又长又,很好看。

tā de shǒu zhǐ yòu cháng yòu xì, hěn hǎo kàn。

Her fingers are both long and slender, and look very nice.

Words with 细

造血干细胞

zào xuè gàn xì bāo

blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)

过细

guò xì

extremely careful

镰刀细胞贫血

lián dāo xì bāo pín xuè

sickle cell anemia

镰状细胞血症

lián zhuàng xì bāo xuè zhèng

sickle cell anemia

间充质干细胞

jiān chōng zhì gàn xì bāo

mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology)

食不厌精,脍不厌细

shí bù yàn jīng , kuài bù yàn xì

lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects)

体细胞

tǐ xì bāo

somatic cell

鳞状细胞癌

lín zhuàng xì bāo ái

squamous cell carcinoma

中亚细亚

zhōng yà xì yà

Central Asia

中性粒细胞

zhōng xìng lì xì bāo

neutrophil (the most common type of white blood cell)

事无巨细

shì wú jù xì

lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom)

亚细亚

yà xì yà

Asia

More characters with 纟

绿