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

(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