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
- —小三third year of elementary school; third year elementary school student
- —小四fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
- —小五fifth year of elementary school; fifth year elementary school student
- —小六sixth year of elementary school; sixth year elementary school student
- —小陰the lesser yin (in yin-yang)
- —小陽the lesser yang (in yin-yang)
- —小逕path; lane; small diameter; small radius
- —小徑path; lane; small diameter; small radius
- —小国民junior citizen; young citizen
- —わい小diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; stunted; undersized; narrow (e.g. thinking); small
- —連小便going off to urinate together
- —立小便urinating outdoors; urinating by the roadside
- —小開ひopening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)
- —小荳蔲cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum); cardamon
- —小児マヒpoliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis; cerebral palsy
- —小児まひpoliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis; cerebral palsy
- —小心翼翼very timid; very nervous; faint-hearted
- —短篇小説short story
- —小かっこparentheses; parenthesis; (round) brackets
- —小カッコparentheses; parenthesis; (round) brackets