小说小說 in English

Measure word

• 本 běn (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current... attested
• 部 bù ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc attested

Character breakdown

• 小 xiǎo small
• 说說 shuì to persuade

Stroke order

How it used to be written

小

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 11 forms

说

These are the forms of 說, the traditional character: 说 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 5 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他是一位小说家和诗人。

  He is a novelist and poet.

• 他最后一本小说的主题是什么？

  What is the theme of his latest novel?

• 你明天来的时候，我就看完这本小说了。

  I will have finished reading this novel by the time you come tomorrow.

• 你读完那本小说了吗？

  Have you finished reading that novel?

• 小说以女主角的死告终。

  The novel ends with the heroine's death.

All example sentences with 小说