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

= + : Marie Curie inspects her farm in the space station's bathroom. She set up a field where innocent silk worms have to die only for the production of fine and slender silk threads.

细 character breakdown

field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field (田) of crosses (十) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). She ordered an enclosure (囗) full of crosses (十) and puts them up one by one.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 细 as component

细 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 细

careful / attentive
tiny / minute / fine / subtle / sensitive (instruments)
tiny / fine / minute
detailed rules and regulations / bylaws
to give a more granular level of detail / to elaborate / to refine / to become more differentiated
to divide (into subgroups etc); to break down (into subcategories, subprocesses etc)
fine (texture) / meticulous / close (analysis) / detailed
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
scary to think about (coll.) (coined c. 2013)
countdown / breakdown / to list / to enumerate / to run through
fuzz / fine fur (of marten etc)
to observe carefully
meerkat / see 狐獴[hu2 meng3]
tiny insignificant details / niceties

Sentences with 细

kě
xi̅
tài
cu̅
le
yi̅
diǎn
 
 
xì
yi̅
diǎn
jiù
hǎo
le