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細

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See also: 细
細 U+7D30, 細
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D30
← 累
[U+7D2F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 紱 →
[U+7D31]

Translingual

Han character

細 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火田 (VFW), four-corner 26900, composition ⿰糹田)

Derived characters

  • 𱔕, 𫱫, 𪷉, 𫋘, 𫎰, 𬧐, 𫙶, 𦃯, 𬗱, 𬘅, 𫄕, 𦹀, 𬗽, 𧀇

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
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 細, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (囟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *snɯːls): semantic 糸 + phonetic 囟 (OC *snɯns). The right component is etymologically unrelated to 田 in which it was corrupted to after the Han dynasty.

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

Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • sòe - vernacular;
    • sè - literary.
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Definitions

細

  1. (literary or Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min) small; tiny; little
    Antonym: 大
    點解會咁細嘅？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    点解会咁细嘅？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    dim2 gaai2 wui5 gam3 sai3 ge2? [Jyutping]
    Why is it so small?
  2. thin; slender
    Antonym: 粗 (cū)
    細線／细线  ―  xì xiàn  ―  thin string
  3. fine; delicate; exquisite
    Antonym: 粗 (cū)
    細沙／细沙  ―  xì shā  ―  fine sand
  4. careful; detailed; meticulous
  5. slowly; carefully; thoroughly; detailedly
    細看／细看  ―  xìkàn  ―  to carefully examine
  6. trifling; trivial; unimportant
  7. (of one's voice) soft
  8. frugal; sparing
  9. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min) young; little
    Antonym: 大
    你仲細咩！／你仲细咩！ [Cantonese]  ―  nei5 zung6 sai3 me1! [Jyutping]  ―  [Do you think that] you're still a child?
  10. (Cantonese) to be younger than
    Antonym: 大
    細佢幾十年／细佢几十年 [Cantonese]  ―  sai3 keoi5 gei2 sap6 nin4 [Jyutping]  ―  younger than them by a couple decades
  11. (Hokkien) concubine

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小 (“small”) [map]
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Dialectal synonyms of 細 (“thin; fine; slender”) [map]
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Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “small”): 大 (dà, “large”)
  • (antonym(s) of “young”): 大 (dà, “grown up”)
  • (antonym(s) of “fine”): 粗 (cū, “coarse”)

Compounds

References

  • “細”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “细”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.
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Japanese

Kanji

細

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. thin, fine
  2. slender

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

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For pronunciation and definitions of 細 – see the following entry.
【小ささ】1
[prefix] attached to certain nouns to mean:
[prefix] small
[prefix] fine
[prefix] slight
Alternative spellings
些些, さざ
(This term, 細, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

細 (eumhun 가늘 세 (ganeul se))

  1. hanja form? of 세 (“thin”)

Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

細: Hán Việt readings: tế

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