novel
小说 is written with 12 strokes (小: 3, 说: 9). The animation replays automatically.
他的最后一本小说 = his final novel.
小说 appears in 2 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
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