小儿 (小兒)
xiǎo ér
Pinyin

Definition

小儿 (小兒)
 - 
xiǎo ér
  1. young child
  2. (humble) my son
小儿 (小兒)
 - 
xiǎo r5
  1. (coll.) early childhood
  2. baby boy

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

是啊，太经典了！这么小儿科的问题，不仅那个参赛者答不出，底下的观众一半以上居然说是太阳！真丢法国人的脸！
shì a ，tài jīngdiǎn le ！zhème xiǎoérkē de wèntí ，bùjǐn nàge cānsàizhě dá bu chū ，dǐxià de guānzhòng yībàn yǐshàng jūrán shuō shì tàiyáng ！zhēn diū Fǎguó rén de liǎn ！
Yeah, it's such a classic. Such a simple question, but not only was that participant unable to respond, but more than half of the people in the audience also somehow thought it was the sun! How humiliating for the French!
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依我看，什么烟花呀，玫瑰呀都太小儿科了，缺乏新意。咱们得想点特别的，让未来嫂子终身难忘。
yī wǒ kàn ，shénme yānhuā ya ，méigui ya dōu tài xiǎoérkē le ，quēfá xīnyì 。zánmen děi xiǎng diǎnr tèbié de ，ràng wèilái sǎozi zhōngshēnnánwàng 。
In my opinion, fireworks, roses and such are all too childish and lack originality. We have to think of something special for the future sister-in-law so she will never forget it for the rest of her life.
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曹操的小儿子叫曹冲，在他五六岁的时候，有人给他爸爸曹操送来了一头大象。曹操很高兴，就带着曹冲和文武百官一起去看。
Cáo Cāo de xiǎo\'érzi jiào Cáo Chōng ，zài tā wǔliù suì de shíhou ，yǒurén gěi tā bàba Cáo Cāo sòng lái le yī tóu dàxiàng 。Cáo Cāo hěn gāoxìng ，jiù dài zhe Cáo Chōng hé wénwǔbǎiguān yīqǐ qù kàn 。
Cao Cao's son was named Cao Chong. When he was five or six years old, someone gave his father an elephant. Cao Cao was really happy. He brought Cao Chong and all of his ministers to see it.
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老姜，我，我......家里只剩下我和小儿子了！
LǎoJiāng ，wǒ ，wǒ ......jiā lǐ zhǐ shèngxià wǒ hé xiǎo\'érzi le ！
Lao Jiang, I...I...the only ones left from our family are my son and I!
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