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微小

wēi xiǎo

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

微小 (wēi xiǎo) means "minute (i.e. extremely small); infinitesimal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 微小 means

1. minute (i.e. extremely small)
2. infinitesimal

The characters in 微小

• 微wēitiny; miniature; slightly
• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few

Example sentences

• 细菌微小到无法用肉眼看到。
  Bacteria are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye.
• 宇航服保护宇航员们不会因和微小宇宙尘埃碰撞而受伤。
  Spacesuits protect astronauts from being injured from impacts of small bits of space dust.
• 每一天都是一生；每一次起床醒来都是次微小的新生，每个清新的早晨都带着点青春，每次歇息和睡眠都是次小小的死亡。
  Měi yī tiān dōu shì yīshēng; měi yīcì qǐchuáng xǐnglái dōu shì cì wēixiǎo de xīnshēng, měi gè qīngxīn de zǎochén dōu dài zhe diǎn qīngchūn, měicì xiēxi hé shuìmián dōu shì cì xiǎoxiǎo de sǐwáng.
  Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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