Chinese symbol for “alley”
小巷
xiǎo xiàng
alley
The closest CC-CEDICT match for alley is 小巷 (xiǎo xiàng), defined as: alley.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “alley”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小径 (小徑) | xiǎo jìng | alley; trail |
| 巷子 | xiàng zi | alley |
| 巷弄 | xiàng lòng | alley; lane |
| 胡同 | hú tòng | lane; alley; 条 (tiáo) |
| 弄 | lòng | lane; alley |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小巷.
| 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) |
| 大街小巷 | dà jiē xiǎo xiàng | great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city |
| 巷子 | xiàng zi | alley |
See also: Japanese symbol for “alley”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.