短篇小说 duǎnpiānxiǎoshuō short story Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 短篇 duǎnpiān adjectivenoun short (of a piece of writing or artistic work) short in length; brief小说 小說 xiǎoshuō noun fiction novel; fiction; a literary genre that uses narrative prose to describe characters and stories