"Smaller" • Chinese-English Dictionary

DICTIONARY OPTIONS
CHARACTERS : Simplified Traditional
PHONETIC : Pinyin Bopomofo EFEO Wade-Giles Yale
» Search by Radical
分家 fēn jiā to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
分装 fēn zhuāng to divide into portions / to package in smaller quantities / to separate into loads
小头 xiǎo tóu the smaller part or share of sth
柳琴 liǔ qín liuqin lute, smaller version of the pipa 琵琶, with holes in the soundbox, and range similar to that of a violin
缩印 suō yìn to reprint (a book etc) in a smaller format
京胡 jīng hú jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 / (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京二胡
辅币 fǔ bì fractional currency (coin or note of value smaller than the country's unit of currency) / token (used instead of money for slot machines etc)
零 líng zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither
瑟 sè a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings
小岛屿国家特别问题会议  Meeting on the Special Problems of the Smaller Island Countries
较小岛屿国家委员会  Committee on Smaller Island Countries
孔融让梨 Kǒng Róng ràng lí Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
打瓜 dǎ guā a smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds
柴鸡 chái jī a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
阎王好见，小鬼难当 Yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)
一览众山小 yī lǎn zhòng shān xiǎo (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
小半 xiǎo bàn a portion smaller than a half / the lesser part / the smaller part
子母 zǐ mǔ mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
抓大放小 zhuā dà fàng xiǎo (PRC, mid-1990s) to restructure the large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) controlled by the central government and privatize smaller SOEs at the local level
Chinese Tones