小 xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
小偷儿
xiǎotōuér
thief
Characters in this word
偷 tōu
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 俞 to consent, to approve
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
儿 ér
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 儿 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 小偷儿跑了。 Xiǎotōuér pǎo le. The thief ran away.
- 抓住小偷儿。 Zhuāzhù xiǎotōuér. Catch the thief.
- 小偷儿别跑。 Xiǎotōuér bié pǎo. Thief, do not run away.
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