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Chinese symbol for “hawker”

小贩
xiǎo fàn
Traditional: 小販
peddler; hawker

The closest CC-CEDICT match for hawker is 小贩 (xiǎo fàn), defined as: peddler; hawker.

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Characters and stroke order

小 xiǎo
small, tiny, insignificant
radical 42 ⼩ · 3 strokes
贩 fàn
merchant, peddler; to deal in, to trade
radical 154 ⾙ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “hawker”

WordPinyinMeaning
行商háng shāngtraveling salesman; itinerant trader

Related words

Other words that share a character with 小贩.

WordPinyinMeaning
小时 (小時)xiǎo shíhour
小说 (小說)xiǎo shuōnovel; fiction
小学 (小學)xiǎo xuéelementary school; primary school
小姐xiǎo jieyoung lady; miss
小组 (小組)xiǎo zǔgroup
小孩xiǎo háichild; 个 (gè)
贩卖 (販賣)fàn màito sell; to peddle
贩毒 (販毒)fàn dúto traffic narcotics; drugs trade

See also: Japanese symbol for “hawker”.

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.