Chinese symbol for “novella”
中篇小说
zhōng piān xiǎo shuō
Traditional: 中篇小說
novella
The closest CC-CEDICT match for novella is 中篇小说 (zhōng piān xiǎo shuō), defined as: novella.
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Characters and stroke order
中 zhōng
central; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target), to attain; China; Ch
radical 2 ⼁ · 4 strokes
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 中篇小说.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 其中 | qí zhōng | among; in |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 中央 | zhōng yāng | central; middle |
| 中学 (中學) | zhōng xué | middle school |
| 之中 | zhī zhōng | inside; among |
| 集中 | jí zhōng | to concentrate; to centralize |
| 长篇 (長篇) | cháng piān | lengthy (report or speech) |
| 篇幅 | piān fu | length (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page |
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 说明 (說明) | shuō míng | to explain; to illustrate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “novella”.
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.