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小 — stroke order
Watch how to write 小 (xiǎo) stroke by stroke. 小 has 3 strokes and means “small”. It appears in common words such as 小時 (hour) and 小小 (very small). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 小
The most common words that use 小 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
小時xiǎoshíhour小小xiǎoxiǎovery small小心xiǎoxīnto be careful小孩xiǎoháichild小姐xiǎojieyoung lady小時候xiǎoshíhouin one's childhood
How 小 is written
- Radical
- 小
- Components
- 亅 ＋ 八
- Formation
- Ideographic — Dividing 八 by a line 亅.