小卒

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	die; soldier; abruptly die; soldier; abruptly; hurriedly
simp. and trad. (小卒)		小	卒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎozú

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² zeot¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎozú
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎozú
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-tsu²
    • Yale: syǎu-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheautzwu
    • Palladius: сяоцзу (sjaoczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² zeot¹
    • Yale: síu jēut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² dzoet⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² zêd¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ t͡sɵt̚⁵/

Noun

小卒

1. (literary, military) low ranking soldier; foot soldier; private
2. (literary) ordinary person
3. (xiangqi, chess) pawn (on the black side)

Synonyms

• (chess pawn):

Dialectal synonyms of 卒子 (“xiangqi black pawn”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		卒子
Mandarin	Harbin	卒兒
	Yantai (Muping)	小卒兒, 卒
	Jinan	小卒兒
	Luoyang	卒子, 小卒
	Xi'an	卒子, 卒, 小卒
	Yinchuan	卒
	Lanzhou	卒子, 卒
	Xining	卒, 卒子, 尕卒兒
	Ürümqi	卒兒, 卒子, 卒娃子
	Wuhan	卒子, 卒
	Guiyang	卒子, 卒, 小卒子, 小卒
	Liuzhou	卒崽, 卒
	Xuzhou	小卒, 小卒子, 小卒兒, 卒頭子
	Yangzhou	卒子, 小卒子
	Nanjing	小卒, 卒子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	卒
	Dongguan	卒
Gan	Nanchang	卒子, 卒
	Lichuan	卒
	Pingxiang	卒仔, 卒
Hakka	Meixian	卒
	Yudu	卒子, 卒
Huizhou	Jixi	卒
Jin	Taiyuan	卒子
	Xinzhou	卒子, 黑卒子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	卒仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	卒, 卒囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	卒仔, 卒
	Quanzhou	卒仔, 卒
	Zhangzhou	卒仔, 卒
	Tainan	卒仔
	Leizhou	卒囝
	Haikou	卒
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	卒崽, 卒
Wu	Shanghai	卒
	Shanghai (Chongming)	卒
	Suzhou	卒
	Danyang	卒, 卒卒
	Hangzhou	卒卒兒
	Ningbo	卒格, 卒格爛眼
	Wenzhou	卒兒, 爛頭卒
	Jinhua	卒
Xiang	Changsha	卒子, 卒
	Loudi	卒子, 卒

Derived terms

• 無名小卒／无名小卒 (wúmíng xiǎozú)

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
小	卒
こ Grade: 1	せがれ Grade: 4
kun’yomi	irregular

For pronunciation and definitions of 小卒 – see the following entry.

【こせがれ】 [noun] (derogatory, familiar) you little bastard, you little brat [noun] (humble) one's own son Alternative spellings 小倅, 小せがれ

(This term, 小卒, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
小	卒
しょう Grade: 1	そつ Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːso̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

小(しょう)卒(そつ) • (shōsotsu) 

1. having graduated (卒業) from elementary school (小学校)

Coordinate terms

• 小卒(しょうそつ) (shōsotsu), 中卒(ちゅうそつ) (chūsotsu), 高卒(こうそつ) (kōsotsu), 大卒(だいそつ) (daisotsu)