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
- —小線源治療brachytherapy
- —尋常小学校elementary school (in Japan; 1886-1941); primary school
- —台湾小洞燕brown-throated martin (Riparia paludicola); brown-throated sand martin
- —小水力発電small hydropower; micro hydro; small-scale hydroelectric power generation
- —血小板減少thrombocytopenia
- —最小公分母lowest common denominator; least common denominator; LCD
- —無限小変換infinitesimal transformation
- —小アルカナminor arcana (of a tarot deck); lesser arcana
- —必要最小限minimum necessary; bare minimum; minimal requirement
- —小口蓋動脈lesser palatine artery
- —一人称小説first-person novel; novel written in the first person
- —社会派小説socially aware novel
- —レビー小体Lewy body
- —中小企業庁Small and Medium Enterprise Agency
- —空想科学小説science fiction; sci-fi; fantasy fiction
- —勧善懲悪小説(Edo-period) didactic novel or fiction
- —脳性小児麻痺cerebral palsy
- —小便を漏らすto wet one's pants; to wet oneself
- —大なり小なりto a greater or lesser extent (degree); more or less
- —ゴシック小説gothic novel