The phrase "are xiao" is not correct or usable in written English.
It appears to be a fragment and lacks context, making it unclear when it could be used.
Example: "The students are xiao, which means they are very small."
Alternatives: "are tiny" or "are little".
The three movies are "Xiao Wu" (1997), about a pickpocket in his hometown in western China; "Platform" (2000), about a troupe of performers; and "Unknown Pleasures" (2002), set in a depressed industrial city.
Other writers who came into prominence at that time and had strong local identities are Xiao Xi (Lo Weiluan), essayist and literary historian; Wang Guobin, poet and essayist; Ji Hun (Hu Guoyan), Gu Cangwu Gu Zhaoshenn), and Wang Liangwo, all poets; and fiction writers such as Xin Qishi (Jian Muxian, Huang Biyunn, Zhong Xiaoyang, and Dong Qizhang.
I said my name was Xiao Yun.
Élite academies were accused of being xiao baota — "little treasure pagodas" — and shut down.
A prominent supporter is Xiao Bin of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, the provincial capital.
The most authentic choice is xiao shing wine, which is sold at most Chinese stores, and keeps nearly forever.
The specialty is xiao long bao, a Shanghainese dumpling filled with soup and nuggets of juicy pork.
One of the fundamental Confucian values that ensures the integrity of ritual performance is xiao (filial piety).
One of their most famous dishes is xiao long bao – also known as soup dumplings – which, if done right, are small, light and delicate.
In China — where Beckham's nickname is Xiao Bei, or Little Becks — Beckham signed a contract reportedly worth as much as $75 million simply to be an ambassador for its scandal-plagued league.
At the center of the story is Xiao Si'r (Chang Chen), a skinny, diffident student whose daily circuit takes him from a chaotic, authoritarian school to a cramped home to the danger and camaraderie of a street gang.
