Chinese symbol for “petty”
小家子气
xiǎo jiā zi qì
Traditional: 小家子氣
petty; small-minded
The closest CC-CEDICT match for petty is 小家子气 (xiǎo jiā zi qì), defined as: petty; small-minded.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “petty”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小气 (小氣) | xiǎo qì | stingy; miserly |
| 心胸狭窄 (心胸狹窄) | xīn xiōng xiá zhǎi | (idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous |
| 小儿科 (小兒科) | xiǎo ér kē | pediatrics; pediatric (department) |
| 小心眼 | xiǎo xīn yǎn | narrow-minded; petty |
| 佌 | cǐ | petty; wretched |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小家子气.
| 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) |
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 天气 (天氣) | tiān qì | weather |
See also: Japanese symbol for “petty”.
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.