详细
xiángxì · HSK 5
detailed
📋 详 = explain in detail + 细 = fine/thin → detailed
详 (to explain fully, speech radical 讠 + 羊) plus 细 (fine, thin — silk radical 纟). Two ways of saying small or thorough combine to mean meticulously detailed.
细 — silk radical 糹 + 田 (field)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The silk radical 糹 supplies the meaning, since silk threads are fine and thin, giving 细 its sense of 'thin, fine, slender.' The right side 田 originally wrote 囟 (fontanel) as a phonetic hint, later simplified to 田 in modern script.