Chinese symbol for “undersized”
矮小
ǎi xiǎo
short and small; low and small; undersized
The closest CC-CEDICT match for undersized is 矮小 (ǎi xiǎo), defined as: short and small; low and small; undersized.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 矮小.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矮子 | ǎi zi | short person; dwarf |
| 矮人 | ǎi rén | dwarf |
| 低矮 | dī ǎi | short; low |
| 白矮星 | bái ǎi xīng | white dwarf |
| 矮化 | ǎi huà | (plant pathology) to become stunted; (horticulture) to dwarf; to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc) |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “undersized”.
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.