Chinese symbol for “unimpressive”
小样
xiǎo yàng
Traditional: 小樣
galley proof (printing); unimpressive; (coll.) little guy (mild insult also used as an affectionate term)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unimpressive is 小样 (xiǎo yàng), defined as: galley proof (printing); unimpressive; (coll.) little guy (mild insult also used as an affectionate term).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小样.
| 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) |
| 这样 (這樣) | zhè yàng | this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such |
| 一样 (一樣) | yī yàng | same; like |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unimpressive”.
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.