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
- —小説化novelization; turning into a novel
- —小家族small family
- —小並感childish reaction (like that of an elementary school student); unsophisticated reaction
- —矮小化reduction (in size); shrinking; minimization; trivializing (an issue); making light of; playing down
- —小気候microclimate
- —小辞典small dictionary; abridged dictionary; pocket dictionary; glossary
- —小地域small area; subregion
- —小耳症microtia
- —小祥忌first anniversary of a person's death
- —小中高elementary, junior high and high school
- —小洞燕sand martin (Riparia riparia)
- —小隊長platoon commander; section commander
- —小転子lesser trochanter; trochanter minor
- —小斑点speckle
- —小確幸simple pleasure (in life)
- —純小数pure decimal; decimal whose whole number part is zero
- —小休憩short break; breather
- —小ブルpetit bourgeois; petty bourgeois
- —小水力small hydropower; micro hydro
- —美小辞diminutive