Traditional: 小說
小说 (xiǎo shuō) means “novel; fiction”. It is an HSK 4 Chinese word (traditional 小說) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Measure word: 本,部
Practice each character:
我读了这本小说。
Wǒ dú le zhè běn xiǎoshuō.
I read this novel.
Updated: 2026-05-27