小说家

小說家
xiǎoshuōjiā
novelist

CEDICT

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) the School of Small Talks among the Hundred Schools of Thought
  2. novelist
  3. the School of Small Talks among the Hundred Schools of Thought

Wiktionary

  1. 九流十家之一。
  2. 称善于写小说的作家。

重編國語辭典

  1. 小说作家，写作小说的人
  2. 诸子百家之一

維基詞典

Homographs

小说家 Xiǎoshuōjiā School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 诸子百家 zhūzǐbǎijiā during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

Examples

他是一位小说家和诗人。

He is a novelist and poet.

Source: Tatoeba

我遇到一位小说家和一位诗人。

I met a novelist and a poet.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 小说 xiǎoshuō
  1. novel
  2. fiction

classifiers: 本, 部
=2 家 jiā used in 家伙 jiāhuo and 家俱 jiājù
=2 家 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier: 個