essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)

= + : Joan of Arc scoops a bit of water from the fountain of youth in front of the engine and pours it into a bowl of rice. The water refines the rice into rice wine, and as Joan of Arc drinks it, she finds her spirit renewed.

精 character breakdown

rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.
abbr. for 青海[Qing1 hai3], Qinghai Province
green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a cyan-colored fountain of youth.

= + : The moon opened a very profitable start-up in front of the engine. He put up a fountain of youth and--wearing a fancy headdress--charges the Queen of Hearts a fortune for drinking from the fountain.

Characters with 精 as component

精 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 精

to receive sperm / fertilized / insemination
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
to take the best / to absorb the essence
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.
to swallow semen
group mentality / collectivism / solidarity / team spirit
extensive but not refined (idiom); to know something about everything / jack-of-all-trades, master of none

Sentences with 精

nǎ
lǐ
lái
de
ya̅o
jing