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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 短篇小说

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
短篇小说 duǎn piān xiǎo shuō - short story

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 25,255 37,256 37,922

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
duǎn- short
- brief
- to lack
- weak point
- fault
piān- sheet
- piece of writing
- bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old)
- classifier for written items: chapter, article
xiǎo- small
- tiny
- few
- young
shuì- to persuade
shuō- to speak; to talk; to say
- to explain; to comment
- to scold; to tell off
- (bound form) theory; doctrine
shuō- variant of 說|说[shuo1]

Other Words Containing 短篇小说

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
短篇小说 - - 25,255 37,256 37,922