Chinese Character Wiki
細

xì

thin, fine

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 囟 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

囟 sound component

囟  Sound component

xìn

  

fontanel

Modern form looks like 田.

Evolution

細 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
細 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
細 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

细 (細) 

xì

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

Most common words with 細
Freq.
Word
Meaning

细胞

cell (biology)

仔细

careful

细节

details

详细

detailed

细

fine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤe(k)-s

sejH

xì

small, minute


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 50.3924% of movies

880th most common character in movies

597th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

细

Unicode

U+7D30

Shuowen

“細，微也。从糸，囟聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License