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Chinese symbol for “nifty”

小巧
xiǎo qiǎo
small and exquisite; delicate; fine (features); compact

The closest CC-CEDICT match for nifty is 小巧 (xiǎo qiǎo), defined as: small and exquisite; delicate; fine (features); compact; nifty.

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Characters and stroke order

小 xiǎo
small, tiny, insignificant
radical 42 ⼩ · 3 strokes
巧 qiǎo
skillful, ingenious, clever
radical 48 ⼯ · 5 strokes

Other Chinese words for “nifty”

WordPinyinMeaning
给力 (給力)gěi lìcool; nifty

Related words

Other words that share a character with 小巧.

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)
技巧jì qiǎoskill; technique
巧克力qiǎo kè lì(loanword) chocolate; 块 (kuài)

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.