影射小说

roman à clef

picture / image / film / movie / photograph / reflection / shadow / trace

to refer obliquely to / to insinuate / innuendo

old variant of 射[she4]

to shoot / to launch / to allude to / radio- (chemistry)

small / tiny / few / young

novel / fiction / CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]

to persuade

to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

variant of 說|说[shuo1]

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine