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

13 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
Variants:
clod, lump, chunk, clot, mass
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1800 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 塊茎 【カイケイ】 tuber
  • 塊鉱 【カイコウ】 lump ore
  • 団塊 【ダンカイ】 mass, lump, clod, clump, nodule, baby boom generation (of 1947-1949), babyboomer (born between 1947-1949)
  • 山塊 【サンカイ】 mountain mass, massif

Kun reading compounds

  • 塊 【かたまり】 lump, mass, bundle, clump, clod, cluster, group, crowd, embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.), personification
  • 塊魂 【かたまりだましい】 Katamari Damacy (2004 video game)
  • 一塊 【いっかい】 one lump, one group
  • 拝金主義の塊 【はいきんしゅぎのかたまり】 money-worshiper

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuai4
Korean:
goe

Spanish

  • conglomerado
  • terrón
  • masa
  • aglomeración

Portuguese

  • grumo
  • montículo
  • reboco
  • coágulo
  • massa

French

  • motte
  • caillot
  • masse
1065 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1946 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1122 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1670 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1161 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1524 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1625 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1753 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
386 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
775 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
457 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
579 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2043 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5319 Morohashi
632 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1070 New Nelson (John Haig)
2024 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2180 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1613 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1457 2001 Kanji
3b10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
4611.3 Four corner code
1-18-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
584a Unicode hex code