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Mythic Mandarin

小孩 (xiǎo hái): meaning and stroke order

小孩 (xiǎo hái) means child, 个.

小孩

Simplified
小孩
Traditional
小孩 (same form)
Pinyin
xiǎo hái

Stroke order of 小孩

小

  • xiǎo small; tiny
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

孩

  • hái (bound form) child
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 小孩

  1. xiǎo hái
    • child
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

小
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 3 strokes
孩
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 9 strokes · 子 on the left, 亥 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

小孩 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 东海龙王敖光派一个夜叉出来查看，夜叉见是个小孩，举起斧头就砍。

    Dōng Hǎi Lóngwáng Áo Guāng pài yí gè yèchā chūlai chákàn yèchā jiàn shì gè xiǎohái jǔ qǐ fǔtou jiù kǎn

    Ao Guang, Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, sent a yaksha out to see what was going on; seeing only a child, the yaksha raised its axe and swung.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 小孩

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).