Chinese Vocabulary
小说
novel; fiction
小说
xiǎoshuō3rd tone
- Pinyin
- xiǎoshuō
- Strokes
- 12
- In episodes
- 1
Stroke order for 小说
小说 is written with 12 strokes (小: 3, 说: 9). The animation replays automatically.
Usage
A story word from the script. 看小说 means 'read novels'.
Hear 小说 in real episodes
小说 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
Yu喜欢看小说。
Yu likes reading novels.
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