小子 in English
- (coll.) boy / (derog.) joker / guy / (despicable) fellow
- (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
小
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
子
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 32 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“哈哈哈!钱要像雨一样下,小子们!下周这时候,我们就在钱里游泳了!”
"Hahaha! We're going to make it rain, boys! By this time next week, we'll be swimming in cash!"
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你这小子,不相信我是不是?
You don't believe me, do you, kid?
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萨米是个疯小子。
Sami is a crazy boy.
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这个穷小子最后成为了一个了不起的艺术家。
The poor young man finally became a great artist.