| 小打小闹 | xiǎo dǎ xiǎo nào | small-scale |
| 小技 | xiǎo jì | small skills; folk musical theater |
| 小拇指 | xiǎo mǔ zhǐ | little finger; pinkie |
| 小括号 | xiǎo kuò hào | brackets; parentheses ( ) |
| 小提琴手 | xiǎo tí qín shǒu | violinist; fiddler |
| 小摊 | xiǎo tān | vendor's stall |
| 小摊儿 | xiǎo tānr | erhua variant of 小摊, vendor's stall |
| 小斑点 | xiǎo bān diǎn | speckle |
| 小于 | xiǎo yú | less than, < |
| 小昊 | Xiǎo hào | Xiaohao (c. 2200 BC), leader of the Dongyi 东夷 or Eastern Barbarians |
| 小昭寺 | Xiǎo zhāo sì | Ramoche Temple, Lhasa |
| 小时候儿 | xiǎo shí hour | erhua variant of 小时候, in one's childhood |
| 小时工 | xiǎo shí gōng | hourly worker; hourly job |
| 小暑 | Xiǎo shǔ | Xiaoshu or Lesser Heat, 11th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 7th-22nd July |
| 小本 | xiǎo běn | small capital; on a shoestring |
| 小林 | Xiǎo lín | Kobayashi (name) |
| 小槌 | xiǎo chuí | mallet; drumstick |
| 小标题 | xiǎo biāo tí | subtitle; closed-captioning |
| 小树 | xiǎo shù | shrub; small tree; sapling; CL:棵 |
| 小树林 | xiǎo shù lín | grove |
| 小桥 | Xiǎo Qiáo | Xiao Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义, the two great beauties of ancient China |
| 小段子 | xiǎo duàn zi | short paragraph; news article |
| 小毛虫 | xiǎo máo chóng | slug |
| 小气腔 | xiǎo qì qiāng | small air cavity |
| 小气鬼 | xiǎo qì guǐ | a miser; a penny-pincher |
| 小池・百合子 | Xiǎo chí · Bǎi hé zi | KOIKE Yuriko (1952-), Japanese LDP politician, minister of defense during 2008 |
| 小汽车 | xiǎo qì chē | compact car |
| 小河区 | Xiǎo hé qū | Xiaohe district of Guiyang city 贵阳市, Guizhou |
| 小泉 | Xiǎo quán | Koizumi (name); KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006 |
| 小泉・纯一郎 | Xiǎo quán · Chún yī láng | KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō (1942-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006 |
| 小泡 | xiǎo pào | vesicles |
| 小波 | xiǎo bō | (math.) wavelets; Xiaobo (name); Po from Teletubbies |
| 小洞不堵沉大船 | xiǎo dòng bù dǔ chén dà chuán | A small hole not plugged will sink a great ship. |
小洞不堵，
大洞受苦 | xiǎo dòng bù dǔ ,
dà dòng shòu kǔ | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom). A stitch in time saves nine. |
小洞不堵，
大洞吃苦 | xiǎo dòng bù dǔ ,
dà dòng chī kǔ | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom). A stitch in time saves nine. |
小洞不堵，
大洞难补 | xiǎo dòng bù dǔ ,
dà dòng nán bǔ | If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair (idiom). A stitch in time saves nine. |
| 小洞不补大洞吃苦 | xiǎo dòng bù bǔ dà dòng chī kǔ | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (common saying); a stitch in time saves nine |
| 小淘气 | xiǎo táo qì | rascal |
| 小渊恵三 | xiǎo yuān huì sān | Obuchi Keizō (1937-2000), Japanese politician |
| 小港 | Xiǎo gǎng | Xiaogang or Hsiaokang district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan |
| 小港区 | Xiǎo gǎng qū | Xiaogang or Hsiaokang district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan |
| 小汤山 | Xiǎo tāng shān | Xiaotangshan town in Beijing municipality |
| 小滴 | xiǎo dī | a drop |
| 小满 | Xiǎo mǎn | Xiaoman or Lesser Full Grain, 8th of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 21st May-5th June |
| 小潮 | xiǎo cháo | neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter) |
| 小瀑布 | xiǎo pù bù | cascade |
| 小熊座 | xiǎo xióng zuò | Ursa Minor (constellation) |
| 小熊维尼 | Xiǎo xióng Wéi ní | Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney) |
| 小熊猫 | xiǎo xióng māo | lesser panda; red panda; firefox |
| 小营盘镇 | Xiǎo yíng pán zhèn | Xiaoyingpan township in Börtala Shehiri or Bole City 博乐市, Xinjiang |
