Kanji1 / 3
小 kanji
little, small
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
ちいさいこ-お-さ-
Words with 小
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —小会派minor political faction
- —小宇宙microcosmos; microcosm
- —小乗的narrow-minded
- —小便所urinal
- —極小値local minimum
- —大小便feces and urine
- —寝小便bed-wetting
- —耳小骨auditory ossicles
- —小主観small ego
- —小東京epitome of Tokyo; miniature Tokyo
- —小品集collection of literary sketches; sketch book
- —小臼歯premolar
- —核小体nucleolus
- —小法廷petty bench of the supreme court; small claims court
- —小動物small animal
- —小論文short essay; pamphlet; tract
- —小部分small part (of the whole)
- —小企業small business; small company
- —小京都Little Kyoto; small town with historical features reminiscent of Kyoto
- —小括弧parentheses; parenthesis; (round) brackets