小 xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
小心翼翼
xiǎoxīnyìyì
cautiously; very carefully
Characters in this word
心 xīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
翼 yì
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 羽 — feather, plume
- Made of
- 羽 feather, plume 異 different, strange, unusual
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他小心翼翼地把旧照片放进相册。 Tā xiǎoxīnyìyì de bǎ jiù zhàopiàn fàng jìn xiàngcè. He carefully put the old photos into the album.
- 病人刚做完手术，护士小心翼翼地扶他下床。 Bìngrén gāng zuò wán shǒushù, hùshi xiǎoxīnyìyì de fú tā xià chuáng. The patient had just had surgery, and the nurse carefully helped him out of bed.
- 大家谈到这个话题时都很小心翼翼，生怕伤害她的感情。 Dàjiā tán dào zhège huàtí shí dōu hěn xiǎoxīnyìyì, shēngpà shānghài tā de gǎnqíng. When the topic came up, everyone was very careful, afraid of hurting her feelings.
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