细 細
细細 in English
- thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 細, the traditional character: 细 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他为我做了详细说明。
He explained it to me in detail.
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他拿了面镜子细看自己的舌头。
He picked up a mirror and examined his tongue.
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他认为我们当中有一个奸细。
He believes that there is a spy among us.
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你仔细看看，太新鲜啦！
Take a good look, it's really fresh!
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我下周会详细说明的。
I'll explain it in detail next week.
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我们详细地讨论了这个问题。
We had an in-depth discussion about the problem.
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援救人员为了找到孩子，仔细搜索了那个区域。
The rescue worker searched the area, looking for the child.