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HSK
elementary school; primary school
HSK 1
hour / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
young lady / miss / (slang) prostitute / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *小* | 小* | *小
small / tiny / few / young
HSK 1
primary school student / schoolchild / CL: 個|个, / (fig.) beginner
HSK 1
erhua variant of 小孩
HSK 1
child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate
HSK 2
novel / fiction / CL: ,
HSK 2
group
HSK 2
to be careful / to take care
HSK 2
from childhood; from a young age
HSK 2
in a low voice / (speak) in whispers
HSK 2
middle and elementary school
HSK 2
in one's childhood
HSK 2
to reduce; to decrease; to shrink
HSK 4
street food; snack
HSK 4
small scale / small size
HSK 4
short and small / low and small / undersized
HSK 4
young man / young guy / lad / youngster / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
cowardice / timid
HSK 5
erhua variant of 小偷
HSK 5
less than, <
HSK 6
wheat / CL:
HSK 6
tip / gratuity
HSK 6
short, simple literary or artistic creation / essay / skit
HSK 7-9
housing estate; community; neighborhood / (telecommunications) cell
HSK 7-9
brook / streamlet
HSK 7-9
to be a little bit careless; to have a moment of inattentiveness; accidentally
HSK 7-9
peddler / hawker
HSK 7-9
person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character
HSK 7-9
popular song / folk tune / ballad
HSK 7-9
moderately affluent / well-off / a period of peace and prosperity
HSK 7-9
minute / tiny / negligible / insignificant
HSK 7-9
clown
HSK 7-9
to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) cautious; careful; prudent
HSK 7-9
foot soldier / minor figure / a nobody / (chess) pawn
HSK 7-9
to look down on / to underestimate
HSK 7-9
narrow
HSK 7-9
great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
HSK 7-9
minor road; lane; pathway; trail
HSK 7-9
fiddle / violin
HSK 7-9
virtually the same / differing only on small points
HSK 7-9
stingy / miserly / narrow-minded / petty
HSK 7-9
lit. to make sb wear tight shoes (idiom) / to make life difficult for sb
HSK 7-9
Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution
young guy / lad / youngster / CL: 個|个
round brackets; parentheses ( )
alley
grotto
KTV hostess
subtotal
(bird species of China) lesser necklaced laughingthrush (Garrulax monileger)
xiaomila, a hot chili pepper cultivar (Capsicum frutescens)
yellow bicycle (nickname for bicycles provided by the Ofo bike-sharing company, active 2014–2020)
young / immature
lit. little princess / fig. spoiled girl / female version of 小皇帝
Kojima (Japanese surname and place name)
isle
to catch sb out
mallet / drumstick
brat / little devil
young Chinese cyber-nationalists
small token / mere trifle (used of one's gifts)
infinitesimal / infinite decimal expansion
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
gadget / widget (small item of software)
(slang) a piece of cake / a simple matter
child / CL: 個|个
shrimp / fig. small fry / minor player
(bird species of China) yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea)
calf (of the leg)
dainty and delicate girl / concubine
thief
very small / very few / very minor
slug
small and exquisite / delicate / fine (features) / compact / nifty
Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭, Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan
bypath / trail / bribery as a means of achieving a goal / minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)
micropedia
Przevalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) of Central Asia
small intestine
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom) / fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children / sandwich generation
cerebellum (part of the brain)
(bird species of China) pygmy cupwing; pygmy wren-babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla)
young child / (humble) my son
(coll.) early childhood / baby boy
little mistake / minor offense / slightly too much
small store
decimal point
small bird / young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick) / (fig.) penis (kiddie term) / (golf) birdie
(literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)
(coll.) boy / (derog.) joker / guy / (despicable) fellow
(telecommunications) cell broadcast
tabloid newspaper
Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010
millet
chick

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