| 毛小囊 | máo xiǎo náng | follicle |
| 没大没小 | méi dà méi xiǎo | impolite; cheeky; impudent |
| 治大国若烹小鲜 | zhì dà guó ruò pēng xiǎo xiān | ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom); effective government requires minimal intervention |
| 减小 | jiǎn xiǎo | to reduce; to decrease; to diminish |
| 澳洲小鹦鹉 | Ào zhōu xiǎo yīng wǔ | lorikeet |
| 无名小卒 | wú míng xiǎo zú | lit. nameless soldier (idiom); an unknown; nonentity |
| 无大无小 | wú dà wú xiǎo | no matter how big or small; not distinguishing junior and senior |
| 无穷小 | wú qióng xiǎo | infinitesimal (in calculus); infinitely small |
| 无限小 | wú xiàn xiǎo | infinitesimal; infinitely small |
| 无限小数 | wú xiàn xiǎo shù | infinitesimal; infinite decimal expansion |
| 珍珠小番茄 | zhēn zhū xiǎo fān qié | see 圣女果[sheng4 nu:3 guo3] |
| 眇小 | miǎo xiǎo | variant of 渺小 |
| 督察小组 | dū chá xiǎo zǔ | supervisory group |
| 矮小精悍 | ǎi xiǎo jīng hàn | short but intrepid (idiom) |
| 研究小组 | yán jiū xiǎo zǔ | research group |
| 神魔小说 | shén mó xiǎo shuō | supernatural novel; novel of ghosts and goblins |
| 科幻小说 | kē huàn xiǎo shuō | science fiction novel |
| 科技惊悚小说 | kē jì jīng sǒng xiǎo shuō | techno-thriller novel; science fiction thriller |
| 科研小组 | kē yán xiǎo zǔ | a scientific research group |
| 秤砣虽小压千斤 | chèng tuó suī xiǎo yā qiān jīn | although small, a steelyard weight may tip a hundred pounds (idiom); apparently insignificant details can have a large impact; for want of a nail the battle was lost |
| 空中小姐 | kōng zhōng xiǎo jiě | stewardess; air hostess |
| 缩小模型 | suō xiǎo mó xíng | miniature |
| 纤小 | xiān xiǎo | fine; delicate |
| 羊肠小径 | yáng cháng xiǎo jìng | winding road (twisting and turning like a sheep's intestine) |
| 羊肠小道 | yáng cháng xiǎo dào | road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road; fig. complicated and tricky job |
| 美体小铺 | měi tǐ xiǎo pù | Body shop (UK cosmetics company) |
| 听小骨 | tīng xiǎo gǔ | ossicles (of the middle ear); three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 锤骨 |
| 肾小球 | shèn xiǎo qiú | glomerulus (medicine) |
| 色情小说 | sè qíng xiǎo shuō | pornographic novel; dirty book |
| 蓝色小精灵 | Lán sè xiǎo jīng líng | the Smurfs; Smurf |
| 藐小 | miǎo xiǎo | variant of 渺小 |
| 虚构小说 | xū gòu xiǎo shuō | fiction |
| 蜡笔小新 | Là bǐ Xiǎo xīn | Crayon Shin-chan (クレヨンしんちゃん), Japanese manga and anime series popular in China |
| 言情小说 | yán qíng xiǎo shuō | romantic fiction |
| 谴责小说 | qiǎn zé xiǎo shuō | novel of denunciation (according to Lu Xun's 鲁迅 classification) |
| 赔小心 | péi xiǎo xīn | to be conciliatory or apologetic; to tread warily in dealing with sb |
| 军品出口领导小组 | jūn pǐn chū kǒu lǐng dǎo xiǎo zǔ | Military Products Leading Small Group |
| 通俗小说 | tōng sú xiǎo shuō | popular fiction; light literature |
| 郭小川 | Guō Xiǎo chuān | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution |
| 邓小平 | Dèng Xiǎo píng | Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facto leader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" |
| 邓小平理论 | Dèng Xiǎo píng lǐ lùn | Deng Xiaoping theory; the foundation of PRC economic development after the cultural revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese communist party control |
| 丑小鸭 | chǒu xiǎo yā | ugly duckling; The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen 安徒生 |
| 野小茴 | yě xiǎo huí | dill seed |
| 金小蜂 | jīn xiǎo fēng | a parisitoid wasp (genus Nasonia) |
| 开小会 | kāi xiǎo huì | to whisper and chat (instead of listening during a meeting or lecture) |
| 开小灶 | kāi xiǎo zào | lit. to turn on a private oven; to get special attention |
| 陪唱小姐 | péi chàng xiǎo jie | KTV hostess |
| 雕虫小技 | diāo chóng xiǎo jì | my insignificant talent (humble expr.); my humble writings |
| 雷大雨小 | léi dà yǔ xiǎo | lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action; his bark is worse than his bite |
雷声大，
雨点小 | léi shēng dà ,
yǔ diǎn xiǎo | loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom); a lot of talk, but no action; action speaks louder than words; his bite is worse than his bark |
