小 — Chinese character
小
xiǎo
small, tiny, insignificant
- Pinyin
- xiǎo
- Radical
- 42 ⼩ (Small)
- Strokes
- 3
- Components
- 亅 八
- Formation
- ideographic — Dividing 八 by a line 亅
- Japanese
- 小 as a kanji
Common words with 小
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 小学 (小學) | xiǎo xué | elementary school; primary school |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss |
| 小组 (小組) | xiǎo zǔ | group |
| 小孩 | xiǎo hái | child; 个 (gè) |
| 大小 | dà xiǎo | large and small; size |
| 小心 | xiǎo xīn | to be careful; to take care |
| 小型 | xiǎo xíng | small scale; small size |
| 小镇 (小鎮) | xiǎo zhèn | small town; village |
| 小区 (小區) | xiǎo qū | housing estate; community; neighborhood; (telecommunications) cell |
| 小时候 (小時候) | xiǎo shí hou | in one's childhood |
English words written with 小
小 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 10 · Analects 49 · Art of War 2 · I Ching 30 · Mencius 73 · Zhuangzi 81 · Great Learning 4 · Doctrine of the Mean 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 32
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 34
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 52
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 60
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 61
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 63
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 80
- Analects 1.12
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