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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

小儿

xiǎoér

young child

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

young child

02

(humble) my son

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 小儿 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小儿 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

黄毛小儿,不足为惧。huáng máo xiǎo ér, bù zú wèi jù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

俺打小儿就聪明,老师都爱拿俺举例子。ǎn dǎ xiǎo ér jiù cōng míng, lǎo shī dōu ài ná ǎn jǔ lì zi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 小儿.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小儿.

Directly before

  • 黄毛小儿1
  • 打小儿1

Directly after

  • 小儿就1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 小儿

What does 小儿 mean in Chinese?

小儿 (xiǎoér) means young child.

How do you pronounce 小儿?

小儿 is pronounced xiǎoér. It also has the reading xiǎor.

Is 小儿 an HSK word?

小儿 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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