小打小闹 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 小打小鬧 xiǎodǎxiǎonào ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄚˇ ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄋㄠˋ small-scale Character by character 小(xiǎo)small 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 小(xiǎo)small 闹(nào)noisy A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0