Mnemonic comic for 小
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Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.
Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
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小 character breakdown
"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]
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eight; 8
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Characters with 小 as component
少
示
尖
尘
肖
京
亦
应
东
觉
当
光
学
朩
常
尔
隙
糸
⺍
雀
孙
⺌
尝
尚
党
原
戚
佥
尗
叔
畄
糹
県
棠
齋
歳
桜
栄
営
尕
覚
尙
労
尓
厳
喾
蛍
鲎
黉
尒
厼
尐
峃
鸴
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom
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to show / to reveal
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pointed; tapering; sharp / (of a sound) shrill; piercing / (of one's hearing, sight etc) sharp; acute; keen / to make (one's voice) shrill / sharp point; tip / the best of sth; the cream of the crop
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point (of needle) / sharp / shrewd / pointed
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dust / dirt / earth
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similar / resembling / to resemble / to be like
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surname Xiao / Taiwan pr. [Xiao4]
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capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)
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abbr. for Beijing / surname Jing / Jing ethnic minority
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Words with 小
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom) / fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children / sandwich generation
case insensitive / not distinguishing capitals from lowercase letters
Concise History of the Chinese Novel by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4]
(last line of the poem 望岳 by Tang poet Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3]) with one look I shall see all the smaller mountains down below (from the summit of Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1]) / (fig.) awe-inspiring view from a very high place
Sentences with 小
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