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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

细小

xìxiǎo

tiny

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

tiny

02

fine

03

minute

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 细小 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 细小 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你出国看看,才会知道日本是多麽的细小。nǐ chū guó kàn kàn, cái huì zhī dào rì běn shì duō mó de xì xiǎo。

It is not until you go abroad that you realize how small Japan is.

汤姆害羞到当他用细小的、几乎听不见的声音问玛丽她是否愿意和他一起去影院时,看都没看她一眼。tāng mǔ hài xiū dào dāng tā yòng xì xiǎo de、 jī hū tīng bú jiàn de shēng yīn wèn mǎ lì tā shì fǒu yuàn yì hé tā yì qǐ qù yǐng yuàn shí, kàn dōu méi kàn tā yī yǎn。

Tom was so shy that he didn't even look at Mary when he asked her in a thin, barely audible voice whether she might possibly consider going to the cinema with him.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 细小.

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

Directly before

  • 的细小1
  • 用细小1

Directly after

  • 细小的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 细小

What does 细小 mean in Chinese?

细小 (xìxiǎo) means tiny.

How do you pronounce 细小?

细小 is pronounced xìxiǎo.

Is 细小 an HSK word?

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

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