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

surname Tian
field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field of crosses (田) just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2). She ordered a wooden box (囗) with crosses (十) inside 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

(of an organism) single-celled; unicellular
single-celled (organism) / unicellular
lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom) / fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance
in a whisper / in a low voice (idiom)
details / particulars
to prick up one's ear and listen carefully
prokaryote / prokaryotic cell
phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
whispering in a low voice (idiom); murmuring
neutrophil (the most common type of white blood cell)
Asia / abbr. to 亞洲|亚洲[Ya4 zhou1]

Sentences with 细

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