HSK 6 · Adjectives

细致 xìzhì “careful” in Chinese

Traditional 細緻

What 细致 means

  1. careful
  2. meticulous
  3. fine
  4. delicate
  5. painstaking

How to say 细致

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale细xì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale致zhì4th tone, falling

细致 in a sentence

  1. 细致地选择一本书。

    Xìzhì de xuǎnzé yì běn shū.

    Choose a book carefully.

    Sentence #1428130 from Tatoeba

How 细致 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 细 (xì) with each of its parts in a different colour
细xìthin or slender
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 田field · tiánSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 田 (tián) hints at the sound. Compare it with xì.

The character 致 (zhì) with each of its parts in a different colour
致zhìfine; delicate; exquisite
  • 至arrive · zhìSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 至 (zhì) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhì.

How to write 细致

细 8 strokes · 致 10 strokes

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细致 (xìzhì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 细致 (xìzhì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 细致

Words with 细

详细xiángxì · detailed仔细zǐxì · careful细节xìjié · details细菌xìjūn · bacteria细胞xìbāo · cell (biology)精打细算jīngdǎxìsuàn · careful budgeting

Words with 致

导致dǎozhì · to lead to一致yízhì · consistent致辞zhìcí · to give a speech (formal)别致biézhì · unique精致jīngzhì · exquisite致力zhìlì · to devote oneself to大致dàzhì · roughly以致yǐzhì · with the result that致使zhìshǐ · to cause兴致勃勃xìngzhìbóbó · full of enthusiasm

More words: Adjectives

凶恶xiōng'è · fierce雄厚xiónghòu · abundant雄伟xióngwěi · majestic喜闻乐见xǐwénlèjiàn · popular悬殊xuánshū · very different虚假xūjiǎ · false虚伪xūwěi · hypocritical严峻yánjùn · severe

FAQs

细致 (xìzhì) means “careful” or “meticulous”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xìzhì: xì with a 4th tone, then zhì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 细致 is written 細緻. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xizhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 细致 from the suggestions. Typing xizhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
细致 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.