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
- —左小括弧opening parenthesis
- —最小限度minimum
- —三文小説dime novel
- —自動小銃automatic rifle
- —小委員会subcommittee
- —小児科医paediatrician; pediatrician
- —小児麻痺poliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis; cerebral palsy
- —小心翼々very timid; very nervous; faint-hearted
- —小便小僧Manneken Pis (cupid-like statue urinating into a fountain); Petit Julien
- —針小棒大exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
- —大同小異essentially the same with only minor differences
- —探偵小説detective story
- —短編小説short story
- —中間小説middle-brow novel
- —伝奇小説fantasy novel; fantastic tale
- —武侠小説swashbuckling stories; martial arts fiction; chivalric knight novels; wuxia xiaoshuo
- —冒険小説adventure story; novel of adventure
- —連載小説serial; serialized novel; serialised novel
- —怪奇小説mystery novel
- —無限小数infinite decimal; nonterminating decimal