Memory phrase for the Kanji: 細


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Meaning

narrow, thin, fine

Pronunciation

SAI
hosoi, komakai

Explanation

Left: thread , right: field (Is understood here as a large rice field with four inner water or flooding areas separated by dams or paths )

Mnemonic

Like threads are the dams within the rice field: so narrow.

Radicals

thread
rice field
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Vocabulary

 繊細  せんさい  delicate, sensitive, subtle
 細い  ほそい  thin/slender/fine
 細かい  こまかい  small, in detail, exact
 細工  さいく  work, craftsmanship, tactics, trick
 細面  ほそおもて  slender face, narrow face
 心細い  こころぼそい  helpless, hopeless, lonely, discouraging
 細やか  こまやか  meagre, modest
 細胞  さいぼう  cell (biology)
 細菌  さいきん  bacillus, bacterium, germ


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