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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

坐台小姐zuò tái xiǎo jiě

bar girl / professional escort

大事化小,小事化了dà shì huà xiǎo , xiǎo shì huà liǎo

to turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problems at all (idiom)

大人不记小人过dà rén bù jì xiǎo rén guò

a person of great moral stature does not remember the offenses committed by one of low moral stature

大小三度dà xiǎo sān dù

major and minor third (musical interval)

大小姐dà xiǎo jie

eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty

大小写dà xiǎo xiě

capitals and lowercase letters

大小眼dà xiǎo yǎn

one eye bigger than the other

大小声dà xiǎo shēng

(Tw) (coll.) to speak loudly and emotionally / to raise one's voice / to yell and shout

大材小用dà cái xiǎo yòng

(idiom) to use a talented person in a role far beneath their ability / a waste of talent

大眼瞪小眼dà yǎn dèng xiǎo yǎn

(idiom) to look at each other, not knowing what to do

大肠包小肠dà cháng bāo xiǎo cháng

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

大处着眼,小处着手dà chù zhuó yǎn , xiǎo chù zhuó shǒu

think of the big picture, start with the little things (idiom)

大醇小疵dà chún xiǎo cī

great despite minor blemishes / a rough diamond

大题小作dà tí xiǎo zuò

to cut a long story short / a brief treatment of a complicated subject / fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter

奶油小生nǎi yóu xiǎo shēng

handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy

妻小qī xiǎo

wife and children / (old) wife

学分小时xué fēn xiǎo shí

credit hour (in an academic credit system) / see also 學分制|学分制[xué fēn zhì]

安培小时ān péi xiǎo shí

ampere-hour (Ah)

宵小xiāo xiǎo

thief / bandit / scoundrel / villain

专案小组zhuān àn xiǎo zǔ

task force

市井小民shì jǐng xiǎo mín

ordinary people / the hoi polloi / commoner

店小二diàn xiǎo èr

(old) (in a tavern or inn etc) waiter / attendant

影射小说yǐng shè xiǎo shuō

roman à clef

循环小数xún huán xiǎo shù

recurring decimal

微型小说wēi xíng xiǎo shuō

flash fiction

心眼小xīn yǎn xiǎo

see 小心眼[xiǎo xīn yǎn]

志怪小说zhì guài xiǎo shuō

tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)

打小报告dǎ xiǎo bào gào

(coll.) to tattletale / to rat on sb

打小算盘dǎ xiǎo suàn pán

lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom) / petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter

抄小路chāo xiǎo lù

to take the back roads / to take the side streets / to take the small paths

抓大放小zhuā dà fàng xiǎo

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

抓小辫子zhuā xiǎo biàn zi

to catch sb out

推理小说tuī lǐ xiǎo shuō

murder mystery (novel) / whodunit

援交小姐yuán jiāo xiǎo jie

girl who engages in enjo-kōsai / see also 援助交際|援助交际[yuán zhù jiāo jì]

撑死胆大的,饿死胆小的chēng sǐ dǎn dà de , è sǐ dǎn xiǎo de

fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)

敲小背qiāo xiǎo bèi

to be masturbated by a prostitute

数小时shù xiǎo shí

several hours

文件大小wén jiàn dà xiǎo

file size

斯佩耳特小麦sī pèi ěr tè xiǎo mài

spelt (Triticum spelta) (loanword)

时大时小shí dà shí xiǎo

sometimes big, sometimes small / varying

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