small / tiny / few / young

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

mountain; hill (CL:座) / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither

large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate

eye (CL:隻｜只,雙｜双) / (often used with 一) a look; a glance / small hole / (bound form) salient point / classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc

light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage

small number / few / minority

idea / opinion / meaning / wish / desire / interest / fun / token of appreciation, affection etc / CL: 個｜个 / to give as a small token / to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc

area / region / district / small / distinguish / CL: 個｜个

actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL: 個｜个

to row a boat / rowing; boating / small boat

to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several

small scale / small size

short and small / low and small / undersized

small box / case

(small) bell / CL: 隻｜只

spring (small stream) / mouth of a spring / coin (archaic)

inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag

classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc

to press down / to calm / to subdue / to suppress / to guard / garrison / small town / to cool or chill (food or drinks)

inn / small hotel

baby / small child / doll

change (of money) / small change / pocket money

slight / light / trivial / to a small extent

to retail / to sell individually or in small quantities

(bound form) a compound made by mixing ingredients (esp. a medicinal or chemical product) / (bound form) small piece of dough cut from a rolled log, used for making mantou (steamed buns) or dumplings / classifier for a dose of medicine

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干 / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

grain; granule; pellet; particle / classifier for small round objects (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc) / (Tw) classifier for larger round objects (watermelon etc)

classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個｜个) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy

a small cup / classifier for lamps

stool / small seat

everything is fine except for one small defect (idiom); the fly in the ointment

firecrackers / string of small firecrackers / CL: 枚

to show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc) / to comfort

mound / small hill

great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city

extremely few / a small minority

virtually the same / differing only on small points

to receive in no small measure

to play a small role

(literary) to glare in anger / (literary) (fig.) a small grievance

leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats

to irrigate / to pour water into / to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping) / to cook the books / to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums

small table

gadget / widget (small item of software)

puffed; swollen; spongy / small lake (esp. in place names) / classifier for urine or feces

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type

very small / very few / very minor

small and exquisite / delicate / fine (features) / compact / nifty

small dried shrimp

star / heavenly body / satellite / small amount

vessel / small ship

small intestine

(computing) (text file) line number; (data table or spreadsheet) row number / (Tw) unincorporated firm (typically a smaller business such as a sole proprietorship or partnership)

small net

Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990

servo (small electric motor) / computer server

small store

to travel on a small budget

small bird / young bird (hatchling, nestling, fledgling, chick) / (fig.) penis (kiddie term) / (golf) birdie

small girl

small rooms facing or to the side of the main hall or veranda

small sausage in large sausage (pork sausage stuffed inside a glutinous rice sausage, a Taiwanese street food specialty)

small crack / chink

small figure / small amount / the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point) / fractional part of a number / number between 0 and 1 / decimal fraction

sound of a bell / small bell

small model car / mini-car / small horse-cart / barrow / wheelbarrow / type of folk dance

romance / beautiful scenery / small or petty (of talk etc)

(PRC, mid-1990s) to restructure the large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) controlled by the central government and privatize smaller SOEs at the local level

small town; village

to divide into portions / to package in smaller quantities / to separate into loads

small hole in an object

mound; heap; lump / classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits) / (of noodles, jiaozi 餃子｜饺子 etc) to stick together; to form a clump

small hill

(literary) small child / (literary) limit; bound; extremity / (literary) to differentiate / (literary) origin; cause

surname Ruan / small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province

seal (of office) / seal script (a calligraphic style) / the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆 / writing in seal script

subordinate / secondary / small

to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups

small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women

(bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier / (literary) small castle; fort

by a small margin / slightly (increase or decrease) / (of a painting or a piece of calligraphy) small

fur / down (soft fur) / villi capillary (in the small intestine)

small

minimal / extremely small

minute (i.e. extremely small) / infinitesimal

a French-style bread, similar to a small baguette, commonly seen in Hong Kong and Macao

sports such as ping-pong and badminton that use small balls / see also 大球

appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟

kite (small hawk)

(bound form) small

goat / (gymnastics) small-sized vaulting horse

individual (shareholder) / the small investor

clang of metals / small gong

small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼｜什么)

remainder (after rounding a number) / decimal part (of number after the decimal point) / mantissa (i.e. fractional part of common logarithm in math.) / small change / balance (of an account)

waist / small of the back