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

fine (texture) / meticulous; careful; detailed
fine and glossy
soft skin and tender flesh (idiom) / smooth-skinned
whetstone (for honing knives)
to look into (a matter)
fine grain / fine-grained
(bird species of China) streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum)
(bird species of China) speckled reed warbler (Acrocephalus sorghophilus)
Xihe river in Fuxin / Xihe district of Fuxin city 阜新市, Liaoning
string / thread
string / twine / cord
in a fine voice (idiom); softly spoken
to listen carefully (for tiny sounds)
Xihe district of Fuxin city 阜新市, Liaoning

Sentences with 细

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