小说

小说 xiǎoshuō in a sentence

Novel (fiction)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 3 sentences

小说 (xiǎoshuō) means Novel (fiction). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

这本 小说 很有名。

Zhè běn xiǎoshuō hěn yǒumíng.

This novel is very famous.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 小说

我最近在看一本 小说

Wǒ zuìjìn zài kàn yì běn xiǎoshuō.

I have been reading a novel lately.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 小说

这位作家写了很多 小说

Zhè wèi zuòjiā xiě le hěn duō xiǎoshuō.

This writer has written many novels.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 作家

Questions about 小说

How is 小说 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 小说 (xiǎoshuō, "Novel (fiction)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 小说 an HSK word?

Yes — 小说 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 小说?

The dictionary page for 小说 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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