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

8 strokes
Radical:
ten, complete
Parts:
Variants:
graduate, soldier, private, die
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
772 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 卒 【ソツ】 low-ranking soldier, graduation, moving on (from), outgrowing (something), low-ranking samurai (1870-1872), death (of a noble, etc.)
  • 卒業 【ソツギョウ】 graduation, completion (of a course), moving on (from), outgrowing (something), leaving (a group, company, etc.), quitting
  • 中卒 【チュウソツ】 having graduated from junior high school (as one's highest completed level of education), having completed no schooling beyond junior high school, middle school graduate
  • 大卒 【ダイソツ】 university graduate, having graduated from university

Kun reading compounds

  • 卒する 【そっする】 to die, to pass away
  • 終える 【おえる】 to finish, to graduate
  • 終わる 【おわる】 to end, to come to an end, to finish, to close, to be over, to finish, to complete, to conclude, to finish doing, to be past its (one's) prime, to be awful, to be terrible, to suck, to be hopeless

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zu2, cu4
Korean:
jeol

Spanish

  • graduación
  • soldado raso

Portuguese

  • soldado
  • particular
  • dados

French

  • fin d'études
  • soldat
  • privé
  • mourir
457 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
564 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
537 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
738 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
294 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
798 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
380 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
732 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.1 Japanese for Busy People
787 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
801 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
306 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
245 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2549 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1300 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1769 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1034 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2740 Morohashi
2055 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
615 New Nelson (John Haig)
1025 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1102 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
509 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
455 2001 Kanji
2j6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
2-6-2 SKIP code
0040.8 Four corner code
1-34-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5352 Unicode hex code