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
- —小児癌childhood cancer; pediatric cancer
- —小爆発small explosion
- —種小名specific epithet; specific name
- —小突起small projection; small protuberance
- —小低木small shrub; subshrub; undershrub
- —小世界small world; miniature; microcosmos
- —小集団small group
- —小人物small-minded person; person lacking in character
- —小妖精elf; pixy; sprite; brownie; imp; gremlin
- —小将棋sho shogi (small 9x9 board shogi variant)
- —小熊星Little Bear; Ursa Minor
- —小胸筋pectoralis minor muscle
- —小学館Shogakukan (publisher)
- —小公子Little Lord Fauntleroy (novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- —小公女A Little Princess (novel)
- —小紅書Xiaohongshu (Chinese social media and e-commerce platform); RED
- —右小括弧closing parenthesis
- —甘い小説sentimental novel
- —郷土小説local story
- —軍備縮小reduction of armaments; disarmament