Lower your voices!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小声
in a low voice
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
in a low voice
02
(speak) in whispers
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小声 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小声 appears in 13 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Don't you raise your voice at me.
Could you speak a little less loudly?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小声.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小声.
Directly before
- 关小声2
- 开小声1
- 转小声1
- 她小声1
- 大小声1
Directly after
- 小声一点7
- 小声说2
- 小声地1
- 小声谈话1
- 小声对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 小声
What does 小声 mean in Chinese?
小声 (xiǎoshēng) means in a low voice.
How do you pronounce 小声?
小声 is pronounced xiǎoshēng.
Is 小声 an HSK word?
小声 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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