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細

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 434 / 2,608

Thin

On’yomi
さい
Kun’yomi
ほそ、こま
Radical
糸 Silk (Kangxi 120)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 再 (Again), less common than 背 (Back).

A thread on the left weaves through a rice paddy on the right — the thread is so thin it can slip between individual rice stalks in the paddy.

In words

細い ほそい thinN5
細かい こまかい small, fineN4
細やか こまやか friendlyN1

細 is rank 434 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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