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小朋友

xiǎo péng yǒu

HSK 3.0 level 1 3-character word

小朋友 (xiǎo péng you) means "child; kid". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 小朋友 means

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)

The characters in 小朋友

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 朋péngfriend
• 友yǒufriend

Example sentences

• 小朋友都是外国人。
  Xiǎopéngyou dōu shì wàiguórén.
  Children are all foreigners.
• 教小朋友并不容易。
  To teach young children is not easy.
• 小朋友多是外国人。
  Most of the kids are foreigners.

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