KanjiDB
Radical Index : : 小

いさら,
しゃお, さざ, こう, ショウ, さ-, お-, こ-, ちい.さい, ちいさ
little, small
This kanji has 3 strokes: 3 strokes in the "little" radical (ちいさい) and 0 other strokes
Sample Compounds (200):
1.

こきざみ

mincing, bit by bit
2.

こひつじ

lamb
3.

こぶね

boat, small craft
4.

こざら

small dish
5.

しょうこく

small country
6.

しょうじゅう

rifle, small arms
7.

こづかい

personal expenses, pocket money, spending money, incidental expenses, allowance
8.

こがた

small size, tiny
9.

こやま

hill, knoll
10.

おがわ

streamlet, brook
11.

こどうぐ

props, (stage) properties, gadgets
12.

しばいごや

playhouse, theatre, theater
13.

こごと

scolding, fault-finding
14.

かしょうひょうか

underestimation, undervaluation
15.

すいりしょうせつ

mystery or detective novel
16.

こうりてん

retail store, retail shop
17.

さいしょう

smallest, least
18.

しょうさ

slight difference
19.

しょうひん

something very small, essay, literary sketch
20.

こさめ

light rain, drizzle
21.

しょうせんきょく

small electoral district, single-member constituency
22.
便
しょうべん

urine, piss, pee
23.

こゆび

little finger, pinky, little toe
24.

さいしょうげん

minimum, lowest
25.

しゅくしょう

reduction, curtailment
26.

こむぎ

wheat
27.

こえだ

twig, spray
28.

しょうきぼ

small scale
29.

しょうがく

elementary school, primary school, grade school
30.

こぜに

coins, small change
31.

しょうがっこう

primary school, elementary school, grade school
32.

こがたな

small knife, short sword
33.

こむぎこ

wheat flour
34.

しょうりょう

small dose, small quantity, narrowmindedness
35.

ちゅうしょう

small to medium
36.

こごえ

low voice, whisper
37.

しょうがくせい

elementary school studen, primary school student, grade school student
38.

ちゅうしょうきぎょう

small to medium enterprises, smaller companies
39.

こはば

single-breadth cloth, approx. 36 cm wide
40.

こいし

pebble
41.

しょうに

young child, infant
42.

しょうにん

child, small person
43.

こぐち

small amount, (cut) end, edge, beginning, clue, section
44.

しょうにか

pediatrics
45.

こや

hut, cabin, shed, (animal) pen
46.

こぞう

youngster, young Buddhist priest
47.

こうし

calf
48.

こもの

accessories, small articles
49.

こてさき

(superficial) cleverness
50.

こじま

small island, islet
51.

こづつみ

parcel, package
52.

やまごや

mountain hut
53.

ふくろこうじ

blind alley, cul-de-sac, impasse, dead-end (street)
54.

こぎって

cheque, check
55.

こづつみ

parcel, package
56.

びしょう

microscopic
57.

あずき

adzuki beans
58.

しょうにびょう

childhood diseases
59.

しょうこう

lull
60.
さい
ちいさい

small, little, tiny
61.

こむすび

sumo wrestler of the fourth highest rank
62.

こうり

retail
63.

こもじ

lower case letters
64.
さじ
こさじ

teaspoon
65.

ぼや

small fire
66.

こうり

retail
67.

しょうせつ

novel, story
68.

しょうすう

fraction (part of), decimal fraction
69.

ことり

small bird
70.

しょうすうてん

decimal point, radix point
71.

しょうせつか

novelist, fiction writer
72.

こうりてん

retail store, retail shop
73.

しょうわくせい

asteroid
74.

だいしょう

sizes (various), large and small, pair of swords (large and small) worn together
75.

こうりかかく

retail price
76.

こづか

knife attached to the sheath of a sword
77.

しょうさっし

booklet, pamphlet
78.

きょうしょう

narrow, cramped, small-sized
79.
じんまり
こじんまり

snugly, neatly, compactly, cosily
80.
便
だいしょうべん

feces and urine
81.

しょうせつ

"minor snow" solar term (approx. Nov. 22)
82.

こまものや

haberdashery, sundries store
83.
便
つれしょうべん

going off to urinate together
84.

こわっぱ

(derog) boy, child, youth, brat
85.
しい
こざかしい

clever, shrewd, crafty, cunning, pretentious
86.

さゆり

lily
87.

かりごや

booth, shack, hut, shed
88.

こぼりりゅう

kobori, swimming while wearing armor
89.

こみみにはさむ

to happen to hear, to overhear
90.

じどうしょうじゅう

automatic rifle, weapon
91.

しんりしょうせつ

psychological novel
92.

こすぎわら

thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period)
93.

しょうか

slight mistake
94.

ぶきょうしょうせつ

swashbuckling stories, martial arts fiction, chivalric knight novels, wuxia xiaoshuo
95.
まり
こじまり

firmer tendency
96.

こぐまざ

(constellation) Ursa Minor
97.

こうりしょう

a or the retail trade
98.

おねしょ

bed-wetting
99.

しょうへい

sterigma
100.

たかてこて

bound hands and arms
101.

こばなし

anecdote, brief (comic) story
102.

しょうしん

timid, cowardly
103.

こいわしくじら

minke whale, piked whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
104.

うさぎごや

rabbit hutch
105.

こたかがり

falconry (using small hawks or falcons)
106.

きょうどしょうせつ

local story
107.

こはうちわかえで

Siebold maple, acer sieboldianum
108.
ぜり
こぜりあい

skirmish, brief argument, exchange of words, quarrel
109.

だいちゅうしょう

large, medium, or small (clothing size)
110.

こちどり

little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)
111.

しょうかん

short interval of leisure, short break or breather, lull
112.

わんぱくこぞう

naughty (mischievous) boy, little rascal (devil), brat
113.

こみち

path, lane
114.

こびゃくしょう

peasant, small farmer
115.
コレラ
かせいしょうにコレラ

infantile pseudocholera
116.

こぬさ

small purification wand, thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods)
117.

しょうしゃ

small shrine, small company, our (my) company
118.

じっけんしょうせつ

experimental novel
119.

しんしょうぼうだい

exaggeration, making a mountain out of a molehill
120.

こがら

willow tit (Parus montanus)
121.

しょうが

the self, the ego
122.

ふうしゃごや

windmill
123.

しょうてき

weak opponent, weak enemy
124.

こうりね

retail price
125.
アメリカ
アメリカこがら

black-capped chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
126.

こごめ

crushed rice, tiny pieces of rice
127.

ひだりしょうかっこ

opening parenthesis
128.

しょうわん

lesser curvature of stomach, curvatura ventriculi minor
129.

しょうしんこそく

timid and evasive (person), timid and makeshift (approach, measure, etc.)
130.

しょういん

short preface, brief foreword
131.

どうしょう

the above-mentioned elementary school
132.

こたかがり

falconry (using small hawks or falcons)
133.

しょうこくかみん

small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze''s ideal of a state)
134.

きょくしょう

minimum
135.

こおどり

dancing or jumping for joy
136.

こだし

(apportioning) in small amounts
137.
ちゃい
ちいちゃい

small (babytalk form)
138.

だいどうしょうい

essentially the same with only minor differences
139.

しょうきぎょう

small business, small company
140.

はなたれこぞう

snot-nosed kid
141.

こづかいせん

spending money, incidental expenses
142.

こはだ

mid-sized konoshiro gizzard shad (i.e., about 15 cm in size)
143.

かしょう

too small
144.

こます

baby trout, troutling
145.

こもの

young person, servant
146.

じんしょうたい

renal corpuscle
147.

こぜい

a small force
148.

しょうが

minor festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)
149.

ふうぞくしょうせつ

novel depicting customs and manners of the day
150.

しょうてんち

a small world
151.

こがたか

miniaturization, miniaturisation, downsizing
152.

こうりねだん

retail price
153.
カメラ
カメラこぞう

photographer, usually an amateur, who likes to take pictures of models and presenter ladies in exhibitions
154.

しょうへん

slight change
155.
使
こづかい

(slighting reference to a) handyman
156.

さしかけごや

a lean-to
157.

こしゃく

impudent
158.

しょうしんもの

timid person, coward
159.

しょううちゅう

microcosmos, microcosm
160.

ぶたごや

pigsty
161.

おたき

cascade
162.

こぼね

small bones
163.
さい
ごくちいさい

very small
164.

しょうよく

only slightly covetous
165.

こはる

early autumn, early fall, Indian summer
166.
ぢんまり
こぢんまり

snugly, neatly, compactly, cosily
167.

たんていしょうせつ

detective story
168.
チルドレン
こいずみチルドレン

any of the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election
169.

しょうき

small container, person of small capacities
170.

わいしょう

diminutive, pygmy, pigmy, stunted
171.

こづく

to poke, to push
172.

こびれごんどう

short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhyncus)
173.

しょうまん

"grain full" solar term (approx. May 21)
174.

しょうしゃく

small shaku (approx. 29.6 cm)
175.

じゃくしょう

puniness, youth
176.

こしょう

(noble''s) page
177.

しょうかいは

minor political party
178.

ぼうけんしょうせつ

adventure story, novel of adventure
179.

しょうてん

my little shop
180.
ウイルス
こがたきゅうけいウイルス

small round structured virus, SRSV
181.
カロライナ
カロライナこがら

Carolina chickadee (Parus carolinensis)
182.

しょうへん

crumbling, speck
183.

しょうし

short or concise history
184.

こじわ

fine wrinkles, crow''s feet
185.

しょうしんよくよく

very timid, very nervous, faint-hearted
186.

こばねう

short-winged cormorant
187.

ねこにこばん

(to cast) pearls before swine, really big waste of resources
188.

しょうたん

timidity
189.

きょくしょうち

minimum value
190.

しょうり

small profit
191.

こはるびより

Indian summer, mild autumn weather, mild fall weather
192.
っちゃ
ちっちゃ

tiny, little, wee
193.

たんしょう

short and small
194.

こぶね

boat, small craft
195.

こぎれい

neat, trim, tidy, pretty
196.

とうしょうへい

Toushouhei
197.

こなら

konara oak, quercus serrata
198.

こじゅうと

sister-in-law
199.

かいきしょうせつ

mystery novel
200.

こむすめ

young girl, lass, adolescent female

Kuten Code: 3014
EUC Code: beae
Shift-JIS Code: 8f4d
JIS Code: 3e2e
Unicode: 5c0f
Radical Index: 42
Frequency Rank: 114
Jouyou Grade: 1
DeRoo Code: 1141
Four Corner code: 9000.0
"New Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 7
"Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 1355
"New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 1389
"Japanese For Busy People" Index: 2.15
"The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" Index: 126
"Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide" Index: 511
"A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd Edition" Index: 27
"Kanji in Context" Index: 88
"Kanji Learners Dictionary" Index: 2
"Essential Kanji" Index: 33
"A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" Index: 24
"Tuttle Kanji Cards" Index: 15
"The Kanji Dictionary" Index Code: 3n0.1
"Kanji & Kana 2nd Edition" Index: 27
Morohashi Index: 7473
Morohashi Volume.Page: 4.46
Gakken Index: 36
"Remembering The Kanji" Index: 63
"Japanese Names" Index: 105
Korean Reading: so
Pinyin: xiao3

Radical Index : : 小

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