Chinese symbol for “lad”
小伙子
xiǎo huǒ zi
Traditional: 小夥子
(coll.) young man; young fellow; lad
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lad is 小伙子 (xiǎo huǒ zi), defined as: (coll.) young man; young fellow; lad.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lad”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小伙子.
| 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) |
| 伙伴 | huǒ bàn | variant of 伙伴 (huǒ bàn) |
| 家伙 (傢伙) | jiā huo | variant of 家伙 (jiā huo) |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
See also: Japanese symbol for “lad”.
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.