Jisho

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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

5 strokes
Radical:
open country
Parts:
Variants:
tome, counter for books, volume
Kun:
ふみ
On:
サツサク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1313 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 冊 【サツ】 counter for books, volume
  • 別冊 【ベッサツ】 separate volume, extra issue, supplement, additional volume, supplementary volume
  • 合冊 【ガッサツ】 collection in one volume
  • 冊 【サク】 imperial edict to confer nobility titles (in ancient China)
  • 冊封 【サクホウ】 bestowing peerage by imperial edict (in ancient China), document bestowing peerage

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ce4
Korean:
chaeg

Spanish

  • tomo
  • volumen
  • contador para libros

Portuguese

  • tome
  • sufixo para contagem de para livros
  • volume

French

  • tome
  • volume
  • compteur de livres
884 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
874 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1184 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
88 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
956 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
346 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
190 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1158 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1213 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1312 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
161 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4295 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2171 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2925 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1843 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1515 Morohashi
3483 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
389 New Nelson (John Haig)
1826 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1967 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
835 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3647 2001 Kanji
0a5.42 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-1 SKIP code
7744.0 Four corner code
1-26-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
518a Unicode hex code