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
- —小陰唇labia minora
- —小手術minor surgery; minor operation
- —大小前upstage center (in a noh play)
- —小所帯small scale; small family
- —小豆蔲cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum); cardamon
- —小便袋rubber bag for collecting urine; urinary bladder
- —小孩児child
- —小腰筋psoas minor muscle
- —小脳性cerebellar
- —小旅行short trip; brief journey; excursion
- —小花梗pedicel
- —小花柄pedicel
- —胃小窩gastric pits
- —小三元little three dragons; winning hand that contains two pungs or kongs of dragons and a pair of the third dragon
- —小学部elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
- —小都市small city
- —小劇場little theater; small theater
- —小陪審petty jury; petit jury
- —小線源radioactive small source
- —小皇帝little emperor; spoilt only child (in China)