极短篇小说

flash fiction

extremely / pole (geography, physics) / utmost / top

short / brief / to lack / weak point / fault

sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article

small / tiny / few / young

short story

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