HSK 4 · Function Words

稍微 shāowēi “a little bit” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 稍微 means

  1. a little bit

How to say 稍微

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale稍shāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale微wēi1st tone, high and level

稍微 in a sentence

  1. 在这里稍微休息一下吧。

    Zài zhèlǐ shāowēi xiūxi yíxià ba.

    Let’s have a little rest here.

    Sentence #8749668 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你们能稍微讲慢点么？

    Nǐmen néng shāowēi jiǎng màn diǎn me?

    Could you speak a little more slowly?

    Sentence #1186881 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这种颜色比那种稍微深一点。

    Zhè zhǒng yánsè bǐ nà zhǒng shāowēi shēn yìdiǎn.

    This colour is a bit darker than that one.

    Sentence #420172 from Tatoeba

How 稍微 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 稍 (shāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
稍shāosomewhat
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 肖to resemble · xiào
The character 微 (wēi) with each of its parts in a different colour
微wēitiny
  • 彳step · chì
  • 山mountain · shān
  • 兀weak · wù
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pū

How to write 稍微

稍 12 strokes · 微 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

稍微 (shāowēi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 稍微 (shāowēi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 稍微

Words with 微

微笑wēixiào · smile微观wēiguān · microscopic微不足道wēibùzúdào · insignificant无微不至wúwēibúzhì · in every possible way

More words: Particles & Connectors

确实quèshí · indeed然而rán'ér · however任何rènhé · any仍然réngrán · still甚至shènzhì · even十分shífēn · very是否shìfǒu · whether (or not)实在shízài · really

FAQs

稍微 (shāowēi) means “a little bit”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it shāowēi: shāo with a 1st tone, then wēi with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 稍微 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shaowei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 稍微 from the suggestions. Typing shaowei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
稍微 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.