I had to look after the children.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
小孩
child
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
child
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 小孩 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小孩 appears in 119 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The boy fell off the bed.
Do be kind to your children!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 小孩.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小孩.
Directly before
- 的小孩28
- 一个小孩4
- 这个小孩4
- 对小孩3
- 连小孩2
Directly after
- 小孩都7
- 小孩也6
- 小孩在5
- 小孩的5
- 小孩不4
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 小孩
What does 小孩 mean in Chinese?
小孩 (xiǎohái) means child.
How do you pronounce 小孩?
小孩 is pronounced xiǎohái.
Is 小孩 an HSK word?
小孩 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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