发小 (髮小)
fà xiǎo
Pinyin

Definition

发小 (髮小)
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fà xiǎo
  1. (dialect) close childhood friend whom one grew up with
  2. a couple who grew up as childhood friends

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

小
xiǎo
  1. 1 small
  2. 2 tiny
  3. 3 few
  4. 4 young
小时
xiǎo shí
  1. 1 hour
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
大小
dà xiǎo
  1. 1 dimension
  2. 2 magnitude
  3. 3 size
  4. 4 measurement
  5. 5 large and small
  6. 6 at any rate
  7. 7 adults and children
  8. 8 consideration of seniority
小丑
xiǎo chǒu
  1. 1 clown
小事
xiǎo shì
  1. 1 trifle
  2. 2 trivial matter
  3. 3 classifier: 点 diǎn

Idioms (20)

上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
bù jū xiǎo jié
  1. 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
以小人之心，度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
升斗小民
shēng dǒu xiǎo mín
  1. 1 poor people (idiom)
  2. 2 those who live from hand to mouth

Sample Sentences

刚刚给学生们做的物理学演讲真是帅呆了，作为你发小的福利，单独问一个问题可以吗？林教授？
gānggāng gěi xuésheng men zuò de wùlǐxué yǎnjiǎng zhēn shì shuàidāi le ，zuòwéi nǐ fàxiǎo de fúlì ，dāndú wèn yī gè wèntí kěyǐ ma ？Lín jiàoshòu ？
The physics talk you gave to the students just now really went down well. Given I'm your old childhood friend, could you do me the favor of answering me just one question, Professor Lin?
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