小
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小 (Kangxi radical 42, 小+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 弓金 (NC), four-corner 90000, composition ⿻亅八)
simp. and trad. |
小 | |
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alternative forms | 𡮐 ancient |
Historical forms of the character 小 | ||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Old Chinese | |
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觘 | |
抄 | *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws |
鈔 | |
訬 | |
炒 | |
吵 | *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ |
耖 | |
仯 | *sm̥ʰreːws |
眇 | |
渺 | |
杪 | *mewʔ |
秒 | |
篎 | |
妙 | *mews |
玅 | |
釥 | |
小 | *smewʔ |
少 | *hmjewʔ, *hmjews |
麨 | |
尠 | *senʔ, *smos |
Two possible interpretations:
Starting from some bronze inscriptions, the dots have become elongated. Based on this form, Shuowen erroneously considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 八 (“to divide; to separate”) + 丨 (“small object”).
Compare with 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews), represented by four dots in its oracle bone script form.
Often thought to be related to 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews) (e.g. Wang, 1982), but Schuessler (2007) points out that the alternation between Middle චීන /s-/ and /ɕ-/ within a word family is exceptional.
小
Variety | Location | Words |
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Classical Chinese | 妾, 姬, 媵, 妾媵, 媵妾, 侍妾, 姬妾, 側室, 偏室, 姑娘 | |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 妾, 偏房 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 小太太兒, 小婆婆兒, 小奶奶兒, 小的兒 |
Taiwan | 小老婆, 姨太太 | |
Harbin | 小老婆 | |
Yantai (Muping) | 小老婆兒, 小婆子 | |
Jinan | 小老婆 | |
Luoyang | 小老婆兒 | |
Wanrong | 小婆子 | |
Xi'an | 小婆子, 小 | |
Yinchuan | 小老婆, 小 | |
Lanzhou | 小老婆 | |
Ürümqi | 小老婆 | |
Wuhan | 小堂客, 小, 姨太太 | |
Chengdu | 小老婆, 小婆子 | |
Guiyang | 小婆娘, 姨太太 | |
Liuzhou | 小的, 小, 小老婆, 小婆 | |
Xuzhou | 小的兒, 小的, 小兒, 小點子, 小婆兒, 小婆子, 庶夫人 | |
Nanjing | 小老婆 | |
Singapore | 小老婆 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 細婆, 妾侍 |
Hong Kong | 細婆, 妾侍 | |
Dongguan | 細婆 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 小老婆, 小 |
Lichuan | 小婆 | |
Pingxiang | 小老婆, 小婆子 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 小婆 |
Yudu | 小老婆 | |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 細姐, 細婆, 偏房 | |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 細姐仔, 細婆, 偏房 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 細姐, 細婆, 偏房 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 細姐, 細姨, 偏房 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 細姐, 細婆, 偏房 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 細姨, 偏房 | |
Huizhou | Jixi | 細老嫗 |
Jin | Taiyuan | 小老婆, 姨娘, 姨太太 |
Xinzhou | 小婆子 | |
Northern Min | Jian'ou | 小嬤 |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 細婆 non-face-to-face, 細姐:face-to-face, 姨太 older, 姑娘 younger, face to face |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 細姨 |
Quanzhou | 細姨 | |
Jinjiang | 細姨 | |
Zhangzhou | 細姨 | |
Taipei | 細姨 | |
New Taipei (Sanxia) | 細姨 | |
Kaohsiung | 細姨 | |
Yilan | 細姨 | |
Changhua (Lukang) | 細姨 | |
Taichung | 細姨 | |
Tainan | 細姨 | |
Hsinchu | 細姨 | |
Kinmen | 細姨 | |
Penghu (Magong) | 細姨 | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 細姨 | |
Leizhou | 細娘 | |
Haikou | 細姩, 細老婆, 孧老婆, 細 | |
Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 細婆 |
Wu | Shanghai | 小老媽, 小老婆, 小娘子, 偏房 |
Shanghai (Chongming) | 小老婆, 小老官, 姨太太 | |
Suzhou | 小老媽 | |
Danyang | 小老媽 | |
Hangzhou | 小老婆 | |
Ningbo | 小老𡢿 | |
Wenzhou | 姨娘, 姨娘兒 | |
Jinhua | 小老婆, 小婆 | |
Xiang | Changsha | 小婆子, 小堂客 |
Loudi | 小 |
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