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小事

xiǎo shì

2-character word Measure word 点

What 小事 means

1. trifle
2. trivial matter

The characters in 小事

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Words starting with 小事

• 小事一桩xiǎo shì yī zhuāngtrivial matter; a piece of cake

Words containing 小事

• 区区小事qū qū xiǎo shìtrivial matter; trifle
• 芝麻小事zhī ma xiǎo shìtrivial matter; trifle
• 大事化小，小事化了dà shì huà xiǎo , xiǎo shì huà liǎoto turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read xiǎo shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 小视to belittle; to look down upon; to despise
• 晓示to tell; to notify

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo shì correctly.
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