Kilo Lingo

小

xiǎo

Traditional: 小

HSK 1
#220 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

small, little, young

Stroke order

Stroke order for 小

小

Examples

。

This is too small.

。

My younger brother is very young.

！

Be careful!

。

She has a small dog.

。

This room is too small.

小 (xiǎo) means small, little, young. It is used as a adjective in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

大

big, large, great

孩子

child, children

很

very, quite

太

too, excessively

一点

a little, a bit

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 小.

小姐xiǎo jiěMiss, young woman, waitress小心xiǎo xīncareful, be careful, watch out小时xiǎo shíhour小孩xiǎo háichild, kid小子xiǎo zikid, lad, young guy (informal)

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This word is part of lesson 5.