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細

細

See also: 细

Translingual

Han character

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

References

  • KangXi: page 919, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27344
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1351, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3380, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7D30

Chinese

trad. 細
simp. 细

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 細
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (囟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
崽 *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː, *srɯː
偲 *sn̥ʰɯː, *snɯ
腮 *snɯː
鰓 *snɯː
揌 *snɯː
顋 *snɯː
愢 *snɯː
毢 *snɯː
諰 *srɯː, *snɯʔ
細 *snɯːls
思 *snɯ, *snɯs
緦 *snɯ
罳 *snɯ
禗 *snɯ
楒 *snɯ
葸 *snɯʔ
恖 *snɯ
颸 *sʰrɯ
囟 *snɯns
顖 *sniŋs
毸 *snɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *snɯːls) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 囟 ‎(OC *snɯns).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 細
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 蘇計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /seiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /seiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /seiH/
Wang
Li		 /sieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 細
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤe(k)-s/
English small, minute

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 細
Reading # 1/1
No. 13834
Phonetic
component		 囟
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 細
Old
Chinese		 /*snɯːls/

Definitions

細

  1. (literary, Cantonese, Hakka, Min) small; tiny; little
    點解會咁細嘅？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    点解会咁细嘅？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    Dim2 gaai2 wui5 gam3sai3 ge2? [Jyutping]
    Why is it so small?
  2. (literary, Cantonese, Hakka, Min) young; little
    你仲細咩！ / 你仲细咩！ [Cantonese]  ―  Nei5 zung6sai3 me1! [Jyutping]  ―  [Do you think that] you're still a child?
  3. fine; delicate
    細沙 / 细沙  ―  xì shā  ―  fine sand
  4. thin; slender
    細線 / 细线  ―  xì xiàn  ―  thin string
  5. (of one's voice) soft
  6. frugal; sparing
  7. slowly; carefully; thoroughly; detailedly
    細看 / 细看  ―  xìkàn  ―  to carefully examine

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 小 (“small”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 小
Mandarin Beijing 小
Taiwan 小
Tianjin 小
Jinan 小
Xi'an 小、碎
Wuhan 小
Chengdu 小
Yangzhou 小
Hefei 小
Cantonese Guangzhou 細
Hong Kong 細
Taishan 細
Yangjiang 細
Gan Nanchang 細、小
Hakka Meixian 細
Xingning 細
Huidong (Huizhou) 細
Qujiang 細
Xiaosanjiang 細
Changting 細
Pingyu 細
Wuping 細
Liancheng 細
Ninghua 小
Ruijin 細
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 細
Liudui (S. Sixian) 細
Hsinchu (Hailu) 細
Dongshi (Dabu) 細
Zhuolan (Raoping) 細
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 細
Jin Taiyuan 小
Min Bei Jian'ou 小
Min Dong Fuzhou 嫩、細
Min Nan Quanzhou 細
Xiamen 細
Zhangzhou 細
Taipei 小、細
Kaohsiung 小、細
Tainan 小、細
Taichung 小、細
Yilan 小、細
Lukang 小、細
Sanxia 小、細
Kinmen 小
Magong 小
Hsinchu 小、細
Chaozhou 細
Wu Suzhou 小
Wenzhou 小、瑣
Xiang Changsha 細、小
Shuangfeng 細

Antonyms

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

細

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. thin, fine
  2. slender

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

細 • ‎(se) (hangeul 세, revised se, McCune-Reischauer se, Yale sye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

細 (tế, tới, té, tí, tỉ)

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