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小伙子

xiǎo huǒ zi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 3-character word Traditional 小夥子

小伙子 (xiǎo huǒ zi) means "young man". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 小伙子 means

1. colloquialyoung man; young fellow; lad

The characters in 小伙子

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 伙huǒ(bound form) meals (as in 伙食; variant of 伙
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 他鄙视那个小伙子。
  Tā bǐshì nàge xiǎohuǒzi.
  She scorned the boy.
• 她看不起这个小伙子。
  Tā kànbuqǐ zhège xiǎohuǒzi.
  She scorned the boy.
• 你去过哪里，小伙子？
  Where have you been, young man?
• 小伙子，在这儿干嘛呢？
  What are you doing here, young man?
• 有个小伙子在我的瑜伽班里。
  Yǒu gè xiǎohuǒzi zài wǒ de yújiā bān lǐ.
  There's a guy in my yoga class.
• 为什么所有的小伙子都喜欢她？
  Wèishénme suǒyǒu de xiǎohuǒzi dōu xǐhuan tā?
  Why do all the guys like her?

Where 小伙子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Youth, Adolescence & Naivety (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo huǒ zi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.