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矮小

ǎixiǎo

short and small

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

short and small

02

low and small

03

undersized

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 矮小 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 矮小 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我哥哥虽然矮小可是很强壮。wǒ gē gē suī rán ǎi xiǎo kě shì hěn qiáng zhuàng。

My brother is small but strong.

就她的年龄来说,这个女孩算是矮小的。jiù tā de nián líng lái shuō, zhè ge nǚ hái suàn shì ǎi xiǎo de。

The girl is small for her age.

我们突然向下望去,只见一个杯状的洼地,上面点缀著矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指著前方。他说:「巴斯克维尔庄园。」wǒ men tū rán xiàng xià wàng qù, zhǐ jiàn yí gè bēi zhuàng de wā dì, shàng miàn diǎn zhuì zhù ǎi xiǎo de xiàng shù hé bèi duō nián fēng bào sì nüè niǔ qū biàn xíng de jué lèi zhí wù。 liǎng zuò gāo sǒng xiá zhǎi de tǎ lóu sǒng lì zài shù shāo zhī shàng。 chē fū yòng biān zi zhǐ zhù qián fāng。 tā shuō:「bā sī kè wéi ěr zhuāng yuán。」

Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 矮小.

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

Directly before

  • 虽然矮小1
  • 算是矮小1
  • 著矮小1

Directly after

  • 矮小的2
  • 矮小可是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 矮小

What does 矮小 mean in Chinese?

矮小 (ǎixiǎo) means short and small.

How do you pronounce 矮小?

矮小 is pronounced ǎixiǎo.

Is 矮小 an HSK word?

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

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