xiao

/ʃjaʊ/

name 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

next, strong, vanilla, vertical

VERB + XIAO

flavour, followed, ming, name

XIAO + NOUN

chinese, frederic, jan, li, wang, yu

PREP.

Definitions

noun

A type of Chinese flute.

Chou studied violin and erhu (a two-stringed Chinese fiddle) and tried to emulate his second brother by dabbling in the harmonica, mandolin, xiao (a vertical Chinese flute), and the musical saw.

name

A surname.

name

Usually attached to a surname, signifying a little one, junior, small guy, younger person.

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Chou studied violin and erhu (a two-stringed Chinese fiddle) and tried to emulate his second brother by dabbling in the harmonica, mandolin, xiao (a vertical Chinese flute), and the musical saw.

Wiktionary

Xiao Wang arrived in Beijing.

Tatoeba · #645947

Ming Xiao doesn't know yet where he will go next year.

Tatoeba · #1438481

If and only if the ice-cream is vanilla flavour will Xiao Wang eat it.

Tatoeba · #1442349

I think I've seen that person next to Xiao Li before.

Tatoeba · #3537631

My name is Xiao Yu.

Tatoeba · #7242769

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