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Xiao

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin for 肖 (Xiāo) and 蕭/萧 (Xiāo).

proper noun

  1. 1

    Usually attached to a surname, signifying a little one, junior, small guy, younger person.

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 小 (xiǎo).

Forms

plural
Xiaos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).