細
See also: 细
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
細 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火田 (VFW), four-corner 26900, composition ⿰糹田)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: 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
ChineseEdit
trad. | 細 | |
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simp. | 细 | |
alternative forms | 𥿳 |
Glyph originEdit
Historical forms of the character 細 | |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *snɯːls): semantic 糸 + phonetic 囟 (OC *snɯns).
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *z(j)əj (“little; small; tiny”) (STEDT); cognate with Jingpho zi (“small”), Tibetan ཟི (zi, “small”), Burmese သေး (se:, “small”).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
細
- (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min) small; tiny; little
- thin; slender
- fine; delicate; exquisite
- careful; detailed; meticulous
- slowly; carefully; thoroughly; detailedly
- trifling; trivial; unimportant
- (of one's voice) soft
- frugal; sparing
- (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min) young; little
- (Cantonese) to be younger than
- (Hokkien) concubine
SynonymsEdit
Dialectal synonyms of 細 (“thin; fine; slender”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
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Classical Chinese | 細 | |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 細 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 細 |
Taiwan | 細 | |
Jinan | 細 | |
Xi'an | 細 | |
Wuhan | 細 | |
Chengdu | 細 | |
Yangzhou | 細 | |
Hefei | 細 | |
Singapore | 細 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 幼 |
Hong Kong | 幼 | |
Yangjiang | 細, 嫩 | |
Singapore (Guangfu) | 幼 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 細 |
Hakka | Meixian | 幼, 細 |
Jin | Taiyuan | 細 |
Min Bei | Jian'ou | 細 |
Min Dong | Fuzhou | 杪, 幼 |
Min Nan | Xiamen | 幼 |
Tainan | 幼 | |
Penang (Hokkien) | 幼 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 幼 | |
Chaozhou | 幼, 細 | |
Wenchang | 幼 | |
Haikou | 幼 | |
Wu | Suzhou | 細 |
Wenzhou | 細 | |
Xiang | Changsha | 細 |
Shuangfeng | 細 |
AntonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 細
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ReferencesEdit
- “細”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
細
- thin, fine
- slender
ReadingsEdit
- 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); くわしい (kuwashī, 細しい)
CompoundsEdit
KoreanEdit
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
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