细作

细

細

xì

作

zuò

police spy / secret agent

Characters and words in 细作

细

細

xì = xi + Ø4

thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal

细 = 田 + 纟 : 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.

作

zuo̅ = zu + o1

worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)

作

zuò = zu + o4

to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works

作 = 乍 + 亻 : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and Zapatista Zebra (zu) are high-fiveing in the observatory's bathroom (o4) because they're growing so awesome Mohawk (乍) haircuts.