Chinese symbol for “crayfish”
小龙虾
xiǎo lóng xiā
Traditional: 小龍蝦
crayfish; (esp.) red swamp crayfish 克氏原螯虾 (Kè shì yuán áo xiā)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for crayfish is 小龙虾 (xiǎo lóng xiā), defined as: crayfish; (esp.) red swamp crayfish 克氏原螯虾 (Kè shì yuán áo xiā).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “crayfish”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小龙虾.
| 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) |
| 龙头 (龍頭) | lóng tóu | faucet; tap; bicycle handlebar |
| 恐龙 (恐龍) | kǒng lóng | dinosaur (头 (tóu),只 (zhī)); (old) (slang) ugly person |
| 龙虾 (龍蝦) | lóng xiā | lobster |
See also: Japanese symbol for “crayfish”.
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.