Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
ten, complete
Parts:
Variants:
lowly, base, vile, vulgar, despise
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2003 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 卑劣 【ヒレツ】 mean, contemptible, despicable, dirty, foul, cowardly, base
  • 卑怯 【ヒキョウ】 cowardly, craven, unfair, mean, sneaky, dirty, dastardly
  • 男尊女卑 【ダンソンジョヒ】 male domination of women, male chauvinism, subjection of women
  • 野卑 【ヤヒ】 vulgar, mean, base, coarse, crude

Kun reading compounds

  • 卑しい 【いやしい】 lowborn, humble, lowly, vulgar, coarse, crude, mean, base, vile, despicable, dirty, unfair, shabby, poor-looking, greedy, gluttonous, avaricious
  • 卑しい生まれ 【いやしいうまれ】 lowborn, of humble birth
  • 卑しむ 【いやしむ】 to despise, to disdain, to scorn, to hold in contempt, to look down on
  • 卑しむべき 【いやしむべき】 despicable
  • 卑しめる 【いやしめる】 to demean, to despise, to treat with contempt, to abase

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei1
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • humilde
  • vulgar
  • vil
  • despreciable
  • despreciar
  • desdeñar

Portuguese

  • humilde
  • ordinário
  • vil
  • vulgar

French

  • humble
  • ignoble
  • vil
  • vulgaire
1727 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2041 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
221 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1795 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1110 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
976 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1521 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1622 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1770 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
248 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3270 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1688 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2295 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1525 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2738X Morohashi
2642 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
618 New Nelson (John Haig)
1511 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1629 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1235 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
855 2001 Kanji
5f4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-3 SKIP code
2640.0 Four corner code
1-40-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5351 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
small, insignificant
Parts:
little, small
Kun:
ちい.さいこ-お-さ-
On:
ショウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
114 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 小 【ショウ】 smallness, small item, short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days), elementary school, smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name), inferior, younger (of two people with the same name), junior, unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m)
  • 小雨 【コサメ】 light rain, drizzle
  • 微小 【ビショウ】 microscopic
  • 中小 【チュウショウ】 small and medium

Kun reading compounds

  • 小さい 【ちいさい】 small, little, tiny, slight, below average (in degree, amount, etc.), minor, small, low (e.g. sound), soft (e.g. voice), unimportant, petty, insignificant, trifling, trivial, young, juvenile
  • 小さい頃 【ちいさいころ】 as a child, when one was a child

Readings

Japanese names:
いさら、 こう、 さざ、 しゃお、 ちいさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao3
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • poco
  • pequeño

Portuguese

  • Pequeno
  • pouco

French

  • petit
24 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
27 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
36 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
63 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1355 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
33 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
46 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
21 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.15 Japanese for Busy People
27 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
27 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
88 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
511 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
7 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
106 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7473 Morohashi
7 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1389 New Nelson (John Haig)
105 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
110 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
126 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
15 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1141 2001 Kanji
3n0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
9000.0 Four corner code
1-30-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c0f Unicode hex code