细 xì
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 田 field, farm, arable land
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
细节
xìjié
detail
Characters in this word
节 jié
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 注意细节。 Zhùyì xìjié. Pay attention to the details.
- 细节很重要。 Xìjié hěn zhòngyào. Details are very important.
- 他说了细节。 Tā shuō le xìjié. He gave the details.