細
See also: 细
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
細 (radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火田 (VFW), four-corner 26900, composition ⿰糸田)
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 |
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, Cantonese, Hakka, Min) small; tiny; little
- (literary, Cantonese, Hakka, Min) young; little
- (Cantonese) to be younger than
- fine; delicate
- thin; slender
- (of one's voice) soft
- frugal; sparing
- slowly; carefully; thoroughly; detailedly
- (Hokkien) concubine
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 細
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)
CompoundsEdit
- 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
KoreanEdit
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Han characterEdit
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