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
- —景気縮小economic contraction
- —小国寡民small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state)
- —小人閑居a small-minded person being idle (tends to do evil)
- —胆大心小being bold and courageous, but also careful and meticulous
- —官能小説erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel
- —小心姑息timid and evasive (person); timid and makeshift (approach, measure, etc.)
- —小身微禄(in) a humble position with a small stipend
- —成長小説novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman
- —扇情小説sultry novel; suggestive story
- —白話小説novel written in colloquial Chinese
- —猟奇小説bizarre story (novel)
- —小中学校elementary and middle schools
- —小家族化shrinking family (size)
- —小テストquiz; short test; mini test
- —小児性愛paedophilia; pedophilia; pederosis
- —小康状態state of reduced activity; lull; state of abeyance; stable condition
- —大衆小説novel for the masses; popular fiction; pulp
- —長編小説(full-length) novel; long novel
- —小雨決行canceled only in case of heavy rain
- —小児麻酔pediatric anesthesia