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The Kids
Little Cherry (Xiao Ying Tao 小樱桃)
Voiced by: Deng Yuting (TV series)
A nine or ten-year-old curious and mischievous girl.- Asleep in Class: She is very prone to falling asleep during classtime, which has been the subject of countless gags.
- Born Unlucky: Things have often turned unfortunate to her, including nearly burning the kitchen down, growing cabbages instead of desert roses, or her mother catching her intricate scheme to earn extra allowance.
- Cheerful Child: Aside for stressful things like homework and her mother, she frequently holds her optimism passionately.
- Childish Tooth Gap: In some older comic strips, she has a short left tooth in her top Tooth Strip.
- The Ditz: Sometimes demonstrates irrational choices. For example, while attempting to nurse her classmates in season 2 episode 2, she gives eyedrops for Lazy's stomach ache and leg splints for Yingnan's dizziness.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: She has a distinct appearance in her oldest designs where she is adorned with a flower headband and a "noodle" hairstyle (despite that she dislikes noodles at least in that period). Her hair was usually brown instead of black, to sum it up.
- Eyes Always Shut: Her eyes are often closed in countless illustrations (including cover art) or about half the time in some comics.
- Fangirl:
- She is a huge fangirl of the singer Ah Lun (or Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse in the comic strip); she has a poster of Ah Lun/Tse under a toilet lid.
- She also admires Xiao Chou the rockstar in a 2010 comic, to the point it freaks out her mother and a history class lecturer. Once Xiao Chou reveals herself to be a woman in person, Cherry flees and regrets liking her, not before discovering her mother had a change of heart and bought a poster of the celebrity.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her main hairstyle features two small pigtails, which especially standout after the removal of her headband and braided noodle hair in 2003.
- Late for School: One of her most troubling habits is her recurring late arrivals to school, often due to staying in bed late.
- Literal-Minded: Often literally takes abstract ideas. For instance, she mistook Wang Shuai's argument to keep the classroom clean like a five-star hotel as deserving of a vacuum against his method of wiping.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Lampshaded in a tenth anniversary feature in the January 2010 issue, where she riddles the reader her age.Cherry: Ten years ago, I was nine-year-old. Now everyone, guess how old I am. Hahaha, the answer is - 10 years old!
- Plucky Girl: In the Little Cherry House Elf story, she is a very determined and heroic girl who doesn't slouch on saving her friends or realizing how dangerous her foes have been. It's quite a departure from the Idiot Hero version of Cherry in the Eight Immortals story.
- Really Fond of Sleeping: Her habits of sleeping in class and sleeping late in bed have been annoyances to her class and mother.
- Series Mascot: To both the Little Cherry franchise and its parent company, which is partly named after her and highlights her likeness in its logo.
- Spoiled Brat:
- One old strip has a store vendor asking Cherry's dad how he had discovered his shop. He answers it's through his daughter's tears.
- It was adapted into a scene in Season 1 episode 3 with the parents swapped, a background of Cherry having recently joined an astronomy club and begging for a telescope, and her full display of blubberry when her mother refused because she's neglecting her homework.
- Young Entrepreneur: She and other classmates try to generate wealth by raising a chicken like Yingnan's father in Season 2 episode 1, only realizing its ideally a much-complicated ordeal, not to mention messy when all means of production are inside her home.
Lazy (Da Lan 大懒)
- Berserk Button: In episode 15, during his bathroom break from Tie Nan Hua's birthday party, Cherry gives away Lazy's piece of cake to appease a wandering toddler. Upon returning, Lazy is infuriated with his cake lost to the point he demands a review of the cake from Cherry. Ultimately, Tie Nan Hua returns the dish he had gifted her.
- Big Eater: Has no plans to end his hobby of eating excess food. He consumes three servings of fried rice noodles at the restaurant in episode 25.
- The Chew Toy: He sometimes gets into physical harm for laughs. In the Little Cherry House Elf story, he pursuits a squirrel who had attacked him, then encounters a giant one who throws him wide into a bush.
- The Pig-Pen: The one who is most likely to fart in the cast. He also demonstrates a bad breath and wins a breath competition with Xiaonan by abstaining from brushing his teeth for ten days in one strip.
Xiaoxue (小雪)
Voiced by: Zu Qing (TV series)
Cherry's best friend.- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her hair was longer in the older comics, and sometimes in the form of Girlish Pigtails.
- Nice Girl: Has a positive attitude and is pretty calm and respectful to her friends.
Tie Nan Hua (铁南花)
Voiced by: Lu Shuang (TV series)
A fashion obsessed and self-centered girl.- Birthday Episode: Episode 15 is about her eleventh birthday, which is celebrated in a park.
- Eating Pet Food: In season 2 episode 19, when spying for Cherry's abnormal behavior inside a market, Tie Nan Hua finds herself getting too close to her friend and retreats to a food sample table to try a free treat. It wasn't until after consuming it when she was told it's a dog treat.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has two of these to reflect her narcissistic and youthful character.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: She has a selfish ego driven by her belief she will become famous in the future. She does, however, care for Cherry when the latter conspicuously spends less time with her friends in season 2 episode 19.
- Rise of Zitboy: In season 2 episode 2, Cherry, who is trying to be a nurse, applies paint to a zit on Tie Nan Hua's face. Because the latter is allergic to the paint, it exponentially plagues her face with more zits.
Xiaonan (小南)
- Con Man: In season 2 episode 2, he sells a book to Cherry and Erdou claiming it helps the reader find their future career with a 99 percent accuracy. The latter two fail miserably as a nurse and program host respectively and attack Xiaonan offscreen in a shed.
- Greed: The hallmark characterization of Xiaonan, he is money obsessed and enjoys finding ways to make some through every imaginable path.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He enjoys charging items to people who thought they're free. But in episode 6, while recovering from an offscreen dog attack, he allows his friends to eat his fruits without strings attached since they showed and care for him.
- Motor Mouth: In episode 13, he talks rapidly as he dreams of merchandise ideas in response to Little Cherry and Xiaoxue agreeing to pitch in his shop.
- Young Entrepreneur: Runs a shop with a variety of items at a young age.
Erdou (二豆)
- Blind Mistake:
- In one strip, Cherry suggests that he wears glasses to treat his myopia. Erdou, who thinks they'll make him unattractive, mistakes Lazy as a pig and offers him flowers to eat and ends up being slammed by him.
- Another old comic strip has him getting harmed by an aggressive bulldog he mistook as a kitten, this time while he's wearing glasses (likely from his heavy myopia.
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: Wears them (sometimes with spirals) in many comic strips. They're omitted in the TV series until he wears them again in Little Fireman (and the intro for Humorous Collection).
Pi Da Gua (皮大瓜)
Voiced by: Liu Hongyun
A timid boy who is seated next with Cherry. He wishes to become a veterinarian. He has a very young brother.- In Touch with His Feminine Side: In season 2 episode 21, he wails when Cherry and the gang couldn't figure out how to propel her inflatable house back to the shore. Xiaoxue tells him that the girls should cry first. As he yields her to cry, she reveals that she won't cry at all.
Wang Shuai (王帅)
Voiced by: Zu Qing
A neighbor of Cherry, he is extremely devoted to learning and being a student leader.- Born Unlucky: He sometimes find himself being too beneficial to other students at the cost of his comfort, aside from other cases of bad luck. In season 2 episode 16, when his friends choose him to stay still to monitor a cockroach because he believes that cycling the monitors will scare away the insect, he considers himself unlucky again.
- Class Representative: While the students take turns to become a class monitor, he's often depicted to have the role, which includes monitoring attendance.
- Mistaken for Thief: In season 2 episode 3, a grocery thief outruns Wang, who is hauling a heavy load of vegetables to Cherry's home. Shortly afterwards, the police confiscate the vegetables from Wang, who fails to convince them he's not the suspect.
- Shirtless Scene: In season 2 episode 15, he makes an agreement with Cherry to run shirtless on the school track should she beat him on training Lazy to run. Once Cherry prevails, Wang Shuai removes his shirt and reveals his Body Paint before dashing. However, the rain shows up and washes away his body paint, to his misery.
- Teacher's Pet: He is often liked by the teacher for being an accomplished student, but his support for rules have not garnered him much favor from his classmates, especially Cherry. He is usually inside Cherry's "inner circle" of friends, however.
Xiaoli (小丽)
Voiced by: Jiang Sha (TV series)
The introvert daughter of divorced parents, she desires to become mayor.- Deadpan Snarker: One of the snarkiest in the cast. In one comic strip, she reasons to Cherry that teacher Xiao Yang has a straight face because her last boyfriend was an alien who returned to his planet.
- Missing Mom: Her character description in the 2002 Happy Elf Little Cherry comics mentions her mother having moved to Japan, and at least two strips hinted it occurred before her birth, when she tells Cherry her supposed origin from hatching out of an egg discovered by her father.
- Perpetual Frowner: Especially in the TV show, where her frequent gloomy looks stand out from the rest of the class.
- Secret Diary: She wrote an alien abduction story in her diary for a homework assignment in one episode.note Peeking into it gives a pretty unwelcoming reaction from her.
- Troll: In season 2 episode 13, she tells Lazy that the new lamp needs to be plugged into the nostrils of smart people. Lazy falls for this lie and delays the lamp's setup, while Xiaoli laughs while being distanced from the other students.
Yingnan (英男)
Kexin (可心)
A beautiful and intelligent student.
Dayu (大禹)
A transfer student introduced in season 2.
- New Transfer Student: Makes his classroom debut in season 2 episode 10. Cherry and friends, however, are annoyed when they realize he's the sweeper that repeatedly approached them the night before, when he was concerned with the environmental impact from their fireworks.
Pidai (皮带)
Juanjuan (娟娟)
- Girlish Pigtails: As a highly immature little girl, she sports long braided pigtails.
- Fiery Redhead: She is a restless child with red hair.
The Adults
Little Cherry's Mom
Voiced by: Lu Shuang (TV series)
Cherry's mother, who looks to the best of her daughter but criticizes her blunders.- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her hair was black in some older comics, and it was short in the early-mid 2000s, encompassing the flash shorts.
- Housewife: She maintains her household and performs chores such as sweeping and doing the laundry.
Little Cherry's Dad
Voiced by: Zhang Lin (TV series)
Cherry's easy-going father.- The Alcoholic: Shown to be carelessly drinking booze. Iin episode 25, he had formally agreed with his family to abstain from alcohol a week ago and returns to that habit.
- Never Win the Lottery:
- Going way back in the comics, he can be described as thinking of nothing but winning the lottery jackpot. He once asked a fortune teller for the winning numbers, and he missed out one particular drawing that uses his birthdatenote .
- In episode 25, he had bought lottery tickets in hopes of winning the jackpot. While he believed to have won according to the TV announcement, in the line, he learns he's only entitled to receive two bottles of soap rather than the ultimate prize and has to share the disappointing news with his wife, who's already looking forward to moving into a fancy home.
Teacher Xiao Yang (小杨老师)
- Bondage Is Bad: In one of the flash shorts (and comics), since watching the movie My Sassy Girl, she decides to dress in S&M gear and wield a whip so she can overcome her students' disobedience in an evil manner.
- Chucking Chalk: Xiao Yang furiously throws chalk pieces at her sleeping students. In one strip, Lazy remarks that she's becoming more accurate and concludes with her idea to make extra money throwing knives for the circus.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The very early comics depict her as having brown hair and long ears.
- Fangirl: Her home is adorned with posters of the Taiwanese boy band F4 in one strip.
- Inconsistent Coloring: During the Powered Armor sequences in the Eight Immortal story, her hair becomes bright red like Ningsha's for no reason.
- Team Mom: In the Eight Immortals story, she is the only grownup in the titular group (which is otherwise made up of her students) and is quite protective to them during their perilous journey.
- Would Hurt a Child: One strip has Xiao Yang going to strike a laughing Little Cherry with a chair after the latter saw her failing grade. Fortunately, Lazy pulls their teacher back.
Teacher Ma Qiang
A middle-aged teacher who eventually replaced Xiao Yang as the main teacher in the franchise.
Principal Pumpkin (南瓜校长)
- Face Doodling: In one of the flash shorts, his face was drawn on by delinquent students during his nap.
Director Hao
- Achilles' Heel: In Pi Tsai's fantasy story in a 2005 volume, while battling against a dragon version of Hao along with a demonic Principal, he distracts Hao by throwing a bottle of SK II towards the principal. They fight each other, and Hao becomes defeated while the Principal is severely weakened.
Little Cherry's Grandpa
Cherry's seldom appearing caring grandfather.
- A Day in the Limelight: Being a minor character in the comic strip, he is a key character in the Little Cherry House Elf story where his granddaughter and her friends visit he and his wife's house in the cool highlands in the summer. He also leads a resistance against an archaeologist and his goons who want to purchase and destroy his house and the town because they pursuit a recently obtained sacred cauldron (where Yoyo is spawned from).
- Captain Ersatz: While most versions of Grandpa don't ring a bell, the TV version in the Season 2 finale has been closely lifted from his equivalent from Chibi Maruko-chan.
Animals
Ah Fu (阿福)
Little Cherry's pet white dog.
Guoguo (果果)
Cherry's pet yellow parrot who appears in some older comics such as Happy Elf Little Cherry.
- Funny Animal: An anthropomorphic bird who can talk to humans, wear clothes, explore and create websites, and even speaks some English.
Magical/Fantasy
Pupu (卜卜)
- Big Shadow, Little Creature: Lazy and Tie Nan Hua first saw a large projected shadow of Pupu on Cherry's window, believing that their friend has befriended a frightening monster.
- Electric Jellyfish: It zaps Lazy and Tie Nan Hua twice in season 2 episode 19. First, in self-defense when they meet, and second, when both kids quarrel at each other for causing pollution.
- Inconsistent Coloring: It is colored green in many comics, even if it's depicted pink in the next panel.
Yoyo the House Elf (尤尤)
Ningsha (宁莎)
- Advertised Extra: Gugu frequently appeared on overlays in the comic volumes and the official website during the mid-2000s, but it only showed up in the Eight Immortals story.
- Fiery Redhead: Makes emotional outbursts when her allies become incompetent, like her angriness when Cherry and friends play in the snow rather than continuing their quest to help her.
- Moses in the Bulrushes: She was sent away inside a big egg by her mother due to a war in their underwater kingdom. Little Cherry finds the egg on a beach in Hainan and could find no use of it until it finally hatches in her room, and she meets Ningsha there.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Gugu is an innocent and happy looking creature with a simplistic look.
- Weredragon: As with other "human" members of her kingdom, she can transform into a dragon. She generously gives her allies a ride from their home to the beach where her egg was picked up.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: In the ending of the Eight Immortals story, she aged fifteen more years because she had spent fifteen days in the human world. Once the main gang visits the underwater kingdom for the first time, she is already a grownup who is now the ruler of the kingdom.
