細
See also: 细
Translingual
Han character
細 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火田 (VFW), four-corner 26900, composition ⿰糸田)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 919, character 36
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27344
- Dae Jaweon: page 1351, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3380, character 5
- Unihan data for U+7D30
Chinese
trad. | 細 | |
---|---|---|
simp. | 细 |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 細 | |
---|---|
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
![]() |
![]() |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *snɯːls) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 囟 (OC *snɯns).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *z(j)əj (“little; small; tiny”) (STEDT); cognate with Jingpho zi (“small”), Tibetan ཟི (zi, “small”), Burmese သေး (se:, “small”).
Pronunciation
Lua error in Module:wuu-pron at line 210: Invalid syllable: 2xi. Wugniu expected, but another romanisation is supplied.
Definitions
- (literary, Cantonese, Hakka, Min) small; tiny; little
- (literary, Cantonese, Hakka, Min) young; little
- (Cantonese) to be younger than
- fine; delicate
- Template:zh-ant
- 細沙/细沙 ― xì shā ― fine sand
- thin; slender
- Template:zh-ant
- 細線/细线 ― xì xiàn ― thin string
- (of one's voice) soft
- frugal; sparing
- slowly; carefully; thoroughly; detailedly
- (Hokkien) concubine
Synonyms
Antonyms
Compounds
Lua error in Module:zh/templates at line 32: This template has been deprecated. Please use Template:col3 instead.
Japanese
Kanji
細
- thin, fine
- slender
Readings
- Go-on: さい (sai, Jōyō)
- Kan-on: せい (sei)
- Kun: ほそい (hosoi, 細い, Jōyō); こまかい (komakai, 細かい, Jōyō); ささやか (sasayaka, 細やか); ほそる (hosoru, 細る, Jōyō); こまか (komaka, 細か, Jōyō)
Compounds
- 細菌 (saikin): bacterium, germ
- 細部 (saibu): details, minor
- 細分 (saibun): divide into small portions
- 細分化 (saibunka): fragmentation
- 細胞 (saibō): cell
- 細目 (saimoku): details
- 繊細 (sensai): delicate, sensitive
Korean
Hanja
細 • (se) (hangeul 세, revised se, McCune–Reischauer se, Yale sye)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}
.
Vietnamese
Han character
(deprecated template usage) 細 (tế)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}
.
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- Han script characters
- Han phono-semantic compounds
- Chinese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Chinese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Chinese lemmas
- Chinese hanzi
- Chinese literary terms
- Cantonese Chinese
- Hakka Chinese
- Min Chinese
- Cantonese terms with usage examples
- Mandarin terms with usage examples
- Hokkien Chinese
- Beginning Mandarin
- zh:Size
- zh:Age
- Japanese kanji
- Japanese second grade kanji
- Japanese kyōiku kanji
- Japanese jōyō kanji
- Japanese kanji with goon reading さい
- Japanese kanji with kan'on reading せい
- Japanese kanji with kun reading ほそ・い
- Japanese kanji with kun reading こま・かい
- Japanese kanji with kun reading ささ・やか
- Japanese kanji with kun reading ほそ・る
- Japanese kanji with kun reading こま・か
- Korean lemmas
- Korean hanja
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese Han characters