小 xiǎo
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adjective
small / tiny / insignificant
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Scale
Notes: Adjectives of size, such as 小, must precede adjectives of shape. For example, 小方桌 'small square table' (Unihan '小'; Sun 2006, loc. 1766). -
noun
Kangxi radical 42
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
prefix
indicates lack of seniority or young age
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this use, 小 is a 指小 'diminutive' venacular prefix used with a noun or person's surname to indicate familiarity (Sun 2006, loc. 691).
Contained in
- 小牛肉 veal
- 小不忍则乱大谋(小不忍則亂大謀) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
- 小白额雁(小白額雁) lesser white-fronted goose (Anser erythropus)
- 奶油小生 handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy
- 小谎(小謊) fib
- 羊肠小道(羊腸小道) road as twisty as sheep's intestine / narrow and winding road / complicated and tricky job
- 小萝卜头(小蘿蔔頭) little kid
- 小羚羊 gazelle
- 娇小(嬌小) petite / delicate / dainty
- 抓小辫子(抓小辮子) to catch out
- 小红莓(小紅莓) cranberry
- 小笼汤包(小籠湯包) steamed soup dumpling
- 小解 to urinate / to empty one's bladder
- 小资(小資) petit bourgeois / yuppie
- 蜡笔小新(蠟筆小新) Crayon Shin-chan, Japanese manga and anime series popular in China
- 小斑点(小斑點) speckle
- 小寨 Xiaozhai neighborhood of Xi'an
- 小洞不堵，大洞受苦 A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole / A stitch in time saves nine.
- 文件大小 file size
- 小儿麻痹病毒(小兒麻痺病毒) poliovirus
- 小嘴乌鸦(小嘴烏鴉) carrion crow (Corvus corone)
- 小面包(小麵包) bread roll / bun
- 小伙 young man
- 小洞不堵，大洞难补(小洞不堵，大洞難補) If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair / A stitch in time saves nine.
- 小数(小數) decimal digit
- 胆小如鼠(膽小如鼠) chicken-hearted / gutless
- 小里小气(小裡小氣) stingy / petty
- 小鬼 a little devil
- 小蜜 girlfriend of a married man
- 小粉 (wheat) starch / amylum
- 开小差(開小差) to be absent-minded / to desert / to abscond from the army / to be absent without leave (AWOL)
- 小两口(小兩口) young married couple
- 小红帽(小紅帽) Little Red Riding Hood
- 小商贩(小商販) small trader / peddler
- 小菜儿(小菜兒) dish
- 小畜 xiaoxu
- 娇小玲珑(嬌小玲瓏) small and dainty
- 解小手 to urinate
- 血小板 blood platelet
- 小拇指 little finger / pinkie
- 小考 quiz
- 小茴香 fennel / fennel seed
- 小技 small skills / folk musical theater
- 小婊砸 little biyatch
Also contained in
小乘戒 、 你大我小 、 小雁塔 、 小传 、 中国小说史略 、 小品 、 附小
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《歷書》 Calendars Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 153
- 卷十三 志第三 歷下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Calendar 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 96
- 卷107下 律曆志三下 Volume 107b Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 75
- 卷107上 律曆志三上 Volume 107a Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 71
- 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 69
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 69
- 卷十二 志第二 歷上 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Calendar 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 68
- 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 67
- 卷十八 志第八 律曆下 Volume 18 Treatises 8: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 66
- 卷十七 志第七 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 7: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 59
Collocations
- 小国 (小國) 非我小國敢弋殷命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 多士 Zhou Shu - Numerous Officers — count: 35
- 小邾 (小邾) 小邾射不在三叛之數 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 序 Preface — count: 34
- 小大 (小大) 政有小大 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 11
- 小君 (小君) 葬我小君文薑 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 9
- 小戎 (小戎) 小戎 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧小戎 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Xiao Rong — count: 5
- 小星 (小星) 小星 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧小星 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Xiao Xing — count: 5
- 褊小 (褊小) 衛國褊小 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
- 侵小 (侵小) 大毋侵小 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 小旻 (小旻) 小旻 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧小旻 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Xiao Min — count: 4
- 可小 (可小) 汔可小休 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧民勞 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Min Lu — count: 4