Jisho

×

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

10 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
song, ballad
Kun:
うたうた.う
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2051 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貝葉 【バイヨウ】 palm-leaf manuscript
  • 梵唄 【ボンバイ】 song praising the virtues of the Buddha, chanting of Buddhist hymns

Kun reading compounds

  • 歌 【うた】 song, singing, classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka), modern poetry
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)
  • 長唄 【ながうた】 long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Edo in the early 17th century)
  • 紡ぎ歌 【つむぎうた】 spinning song
  • 歌う 【うたう】 to sing, to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bai4, bei5
Korean:
pae

Spanish

  • canción
  • balada (acompañada de shamisen)

Portuguese

French

924 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1045 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2039 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
396 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
477 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
297 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
358 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3694 Morohashi
400 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
802 New Nelson (John Haig)
2178 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
57 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
6608.0 Four corner code
1-17-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5504 Unicode hex code