小说家

小说家	Xiǎo shuō jiā	School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
小说家	xiǎo shuō jiā	novelist
小	xiǎo	small / tiny / few / young
小说	xiǎo shuō	novel / fiction / CL:本,部
说	shuì	to persuade
说	shuō	to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine
说	shuō	variant of 说
家	jiā	used in 家伙 and 家俱
家	jiā	home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:个