小 xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
小型
xiǎoxíng
small-sized
Characters in this word
型 xíng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- Made of
- 刑 punishment, penalty 土 soil, earth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这是小型车。 Zhè shì xiǎoxíng chē. This is a small car.
- 小型店很近。 Xiǎoxíng diàn hěn jìn. The small shop is very close.
- 我买小型包。 Wǒ mǎi xiǎoxíng bāo. I buy a small bag.
Related words
- 小 xiǎo small, little
- 小孩儿 xiǎoháir child
- 小姐 xiǎojiě miss, young lady
- 小朋友 xiǎopéngyǒu child, kid
- 小时 xiǎoshí hour
- 小学 xiǎoxué primary school
- 小学生 xiǎoxuéshēng primary school student
- 从小 cóngxiǎo from childhood
- 大小 dàxiǎo size
- 小 xiǎo little (affectionate prefix)
- 小声 xiǎoshēng in a low voice; quietly
- 小时候 xiǎoshíhou in childhood; when young