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thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal
HSK 4
careful; attentive; cautious / to be careful; to look out / (dialect) thrifty; frugal
HSK 5
cell (biology)
HSK 6
bacterium / germ
HSK 6
details; particulars
HSK 4
meticulous; careful; attentive
HSK 7-9
detailed / in detail / minute
HSK 5
(of skin etc) smooth; satiny; delicate / (of a performance, depiction, craftsmanship etc) finely detailed; subtle; exquisite; meticulous
HSK 7-9
delicate / fine / careful / meticulous / painstaking
HSK 4
in a fine voice (idiom); softly spoken
chive
cell biology
macrophage
micromanagement
lit. fine sculpting (idiom) / fig. to work (at sth) with extreme care and precision
meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom)
HSK 7-9
sexual cell / germline cell / gamete
tiny / minute / fine / subtle / sensitive (instruments)
HSK 7-9
to peer / to scan / to examine carefully
cell division
cytokine
blood cell
Central Asia
microminiature technology
in a whisper / in a low voice (idiom)
monocyte / mononuclear cell
neutrophil (the most common type of white blood cell)
stem cell
detailed rules and regulations / bylaws
deep plowing and careful cultivation
white blood cell / leukocyte
Xihe district of Fuxin city 阜新市, Liaoning
to divide (into subgroups etc); to break down (into subcategories, subprocesses etc)
careful / scrupulous
to chat with a low voice
fine / meticulous / careful
HSK 7-9
(Singapore, Malaysia) ASEAN
cytoskeleton (of a cell)
lit. things are not separated according to their size (idiom) / fig. to deal with any matter, regardless of its importance
to eat slowly (idiom)
(idiom) soft, misty rain
clear and detailed / definite / details (are as follows:)
fine sand
extremely careful / meticulous / overattentive
fine and glossy
cytology
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
somatic cell
a spy / a crafty person
(old) spy; secret agent
jug
cell wall
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
(biology) oocyte; ovocyte
(bird species of China) Hume's short-toed lark (Calandrella acutirostris)
schedule / subsidiary ledger / a detailed list
(idiom) meticulous; very careful or attentive
not to discard anything, whether small or big (idiom) / all-embracing
cytotoxin
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
cell membrane
bacterial community (e.g. in the gut)
to tell in detail
sickle cell anemia
germ cell; reproductive cell
multicellular
organelle
inside information / the ins and outs of the matter / how things stand / what's up
to speak softly
cancer cell
fine grain / fine-grained
nucleus (of cell)
blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)
to give a more granular level of detail / to elaborate / to refine / to become more differentiated
whispering in a low voice (idiom); murmuring
granulocyte
to provoke
basal cell carcinoma
concubine
tender
Parvoviridae, a family of animal viruses
cell cultivator
to select very carefully
(biology) mother cell; matricyte
scary to think about (coll.) (coined c. 2013)
small part (of a whole ensemble) / detail
patient work makes a fine product
thick and thin / coarse and fine / thickness (caliber) / coarseness / quality of work
to observe carefully
phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
single-celled organism
(bird species of China) slender-billed oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)
detailed listing / specific item
cell culture
cytotoxicity
(biotechnology) cell disruption
attentive / careful
inner cell mass (ICM)
prokaryote / prokaryotic cell
Asia Minor / Anatolia

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