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
- —小禄small stipend
- —小策petty trick; ruse
- —小過slight mistake
- —小農small farmer
- —小器small container; person of small capacities
- —小論short article; short essay; (one's own) article or essay
- —小難small misfortune
- —短小short and small
- —小弟little brother; younger brother; my younger brother; I; me
- —小店little shop; small shop; small store; my shop; low class whorehouse in Yoshiwara (Edo period); low class brothel; passage formed under the eaves of houses after heavy snowfalls (Tōhoku region)
- —小委subcommittee
- —小１first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student
- —小斎abstinence (in Catholicism)
- —小乗Hinayana (Buddhism); the Lesser Vehicle
- —小胞vesicle
- —小名minor feudal lord
- —同小the same elementary school; student at the same elementary school; graduate of the same elementary school
- —小弯lesser curvature (of the stomach); curvatura ventriculi minor
- —小柄sterigma
- —小括summary (e.g. in a thesis); summation