HanTrace

小说

xiǎoshuō
nounHSK 2

“Novel” in Chinese is 小说 (xiǎoshuō).

Meaning

  • novel
  • fiction

Example

我爱看小说。

I love reading novels.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Measure words

本
used for novels
一本小说 (one novel)
部
used for novels
一部小说 (one novel)
章
used for chapters of a novel
一章小说 (one chapter)

Characters

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