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
- —小吉slightly good luck (esp. as an omikuji fortune-telling result)
- —小篆small seal script (arising during China's Warring States period)
- —小満"grain full" solar term (approx. May 21)
- —小暑"minor heat" solar term (approx. July 7)
- —小雪"minor snow" solar term (approx. November 22)
- —小雅minor festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)
- —小尺small shaku (approx. 29.6 cm)
- —細小minute; minuscule
- —小部(of a book, etc.) short
- —小子little child; male between 4 and 16 years old (ritsuryō period); pupil; disciple; follower; I; me; my humble self; you
- —小妹little sister; younger sister; my younger sister; I; me
- —小童young person; young servant
- —小嚢follicle; saccule; vesicle; little sac
- —貧小petty; trivial; trifling; paltry; meager; meagre
- —小塊small lump; knob; nut; blob
- —小宅house; home
- —小著small book; my book
- —小目parvorder
- —小網lesser omentum
- —小戦brush; clash; encounter; skirmish