Novel in Chinese
novel · HSK 4
小说
- 小 small
- 说 to speak
Counted with 部: 一部小说
这本小说很好看。 This novel is really good.
Other ways to say novel
More words with 小 or 说
How do you say novel in Chinese?
Novel in Chinese is 小说 (xiǎo shuō). You can also say 新颖 (xīn yǐng), 新鲜 (xīn xiān), 传 (zhuàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.