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 / cautious
detailed / in detail / minute
fine / slim / tender
extremely careful / meticulous / overattentive
to speak softly / to whisper (idiom)
blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
fine particle (PM 2.5) / fine particulate matter (air pollution etc)
refined salt / table salt
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
Schwann cell (support axon of nerve cell) / neurolemmocyte

Sentences with 细

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