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琐

suǒ

Character Traditional 瑣

What 琐 means

1. fragmentary
2. trifling

Example sentences

• 不要把时间浪费在琐事上
  Bùyào bǎ shíjiān làngfèi zài suǒshì shàng
  Don't waste time on trifles.
• 他们的烦恼是由一件琐碎的事而起的。
  Tāmen de fánnǎo shì yóu yī jiàn suǒsuì de shì ér qǐ de.
  Their trouble stems from a trifling matter.
• 热爱生活中的日常琐事，人生才会快乐。
  Rèài shēnghuó zhōng de rìcháng suǒshì, rénshēng cái huì kuàilè.
  In order to make life happy, you must love the everyday trifles.
• 有时候发现自己基本上没有时间顾及一些无关紧要的琐事。
  Yǒushíhou fāxiàn zìjǐ jīběnshang méiyǒu shíjiān gùjí yīxiē wúguānjǐnyào de suǒshì.
  Sometimes I find that I basically have no time to pay attention to irrelevant trivia.
• 我习惯于收集琐碎的物件，像是集市上卖的香膏，小蜡烛与烛台，只要是那种小巧又可爱的东西，我都会很喜欢。
  I tend to collect tiny little objects, like balms sold on the market, little candles and candlesticks. As long as they are tiny and cutesy, I like them.

Words starting with 琐

• 琐碎suǒ suìtrifling; trivial; tedious
• 琐事suǒ shìtrifle
• 琐屑suǒ xiètrivial matters; petty things
• 琐细suǒ xìtrivial
• 琐闻suǒ wénnews items
• 琐记suǒ jìfragmentary recollections; miscellaneous notes
• 琐罗亚斯德Suǒ luó yà sī déZoroaster, Zarathustra or Zarathushtra (c. 600 BC), Persian prophet and founder of…
• 琐罗亚斯德教Suǒ luó yà sī dé jiàoZoroastrianism
• 琐罗亚斯特Suǒ luó yà sī tèsee 琐罗亚斯德

Words containing 琐

• 繁琐fán suǒmany and complicated; mired in minor details
• 猥琐wěi suǒwretched (esp. appearance); vulgar
• 烦琐fán suǒtedious; convoluted; fiddly

Characters that look like 琐

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 顾gùto look after; to take into consideration; to attend to
• 琼qióngjasper; fine jade; beautiful
• 颇pōrather; quite; considerably
• 琰yǎngem; glitter of gems
• 殒yǔn(literary) to perish; to die

Sounds the same

Read suǒ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 所actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 索to search; to demand; to ask
• 锁to lock; to lock up; a lock
• 唢used in 唢呐
• 璅fragmentary; trifling
• 鎍chain; wire
• 鏁old variant of 锁