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小说

xiǎo shuō

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 小說 Measure word 本、部

小说 (xiǎo shuō) means "novel". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 小说 means

1. novel
2. fiction

The characters in 小说

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 说shuōto speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off

Example sentences

• 我爱看小说。
  I love reading novels.
• 我在读短篇小说
  Wǒ zài dú duǎnpiānxiǎoshuō
  I am reading short stories.
• 我不看他的小说。
  I do not read his novels.
• 这本小说很无聊。
  This novel is boring.
• 他喜欢看科幻小说。
  Tā xǐhuan kàn kēhuànxiǎoshuō.
  He likes reading science fiction novels.
• 我全天在家读小说。
  Wǒ quántiān zài jiā dú xiǎoshuō.
  I stayed home all day long reading novels.

Words starting with 小说

• 小说家xiǎo shuō jiānovelist

Words containing 小说

• 长篇小说cháng piān xiǎo shuōnovel; full-length novel
• 短篇小说duǎn piān xiǎo shuōshort story
• 武侠小说wǔ xiá xiǎo shuōa martial arts (wuxia) novel
• 中篇小说zhōng piān xiǎo shuōnovella
• 科幻小说kē huàn xiǎo shuōscience fiction novel
• 言情小说yán qíng xiǎo shuōromance novel; romantic fiction
• 非小说fēi xiǎo shuōnon-fiction
• 同人小说tóng rén xiǎo shuōfan fiction
• 色情小说sè qíng xiǎo shuōpornographic novel; dirty book
• 章回小说zhāng huí xiǎo shuōnovel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter…
• 推理小说tuī lǐ xiǎo shuōmurder mystery (novel); whodunit
• 古今小说Gǔ jīn Xiǎo shuōStories Old and New by Feng Menglong 冯梦龙
• 史传小说shǐ zhuàn xiǎo shuōhistorical novel
• 中国小说史略Zhōng guó Xiǎo shuō Shǐ lüèConcise History of the Chinese Novel by Lu Xun 鲁迅
• 微型小说wēi xíng xiǎo shuōflash fiction
• 影射小说yǐng shè xiǎo shuōroman à clef
• 志怪小说zhì guài xiǎo shuōtales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)
• 虚构小说xū gòu xiǎo shuōfiction
• 极短篇小说jí duǎn piān xiǎo shuōflash fiction
• 神魔小说shén mó xiǎo shuōsupernatural novel; novel of ghosts and goblins
• 谴责小说qiǎn zé xiǎo shuōnovel of denunciation (according to Lu Xun's 鲁迅
• 通俗小说tōng sú xiǎo shuōpopular fiction; light literature
• 科技惊悚小说kē jì jīng sǒng xiǎo shuōtechno-thriller novel

Where 小说 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Culture, arts & media (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo shuō correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.