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渺小

miǎo xiǎo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

渺小 (miǎo xiǎo) means "minute; tiny; negligible". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 渺小 means

1. minute
2. tiny
3. negligible
4. insignificant

The characters in 渺小

• 渺miǎo(of an expanse of water) vast; distant and indistinct; tiny or insignificant
• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few

Example sentences

• 眼前的景色让齐里感到自身的渺小。
  Ziri felt humbled by such a scenery.

Sounds the same

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

• 藐小variant of 渺小
• 眇小variant of 渺小

Where 渺小 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · miǎn–mín (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read miǎo xiǎo correctly.
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