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

18 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
cocoon
Kun:
まゆきぬ
On:
ケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2495 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絹糸 【ケンシ】 silk thread
  • 繭価 【マユカ】 price of a cocoon
  • 黄繭 【コウケン】 yellow cocoon
  • 収繭 【シュウケン】 cocoon crop

Kun reading compounds

  • 繭 【まゆ】 cocoon
  • 繭価 【まゆか】 price of a cocoon
  • 黄繭 【こうけん】 yellow cocoon
  • 屑繭 【くずまゆ】 waste cocoon (silk), bad cocoon, damaged cocoon
  • 絹糸 【けんし】 silk thread

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jian3
Korean:
gyeon

Spanish

  • capullo
  • gusano de seda

Portuguese

  • casulo

French

  • cocon
1223 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2013 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4087 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1700 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1651 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2896 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1911 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2086 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1946 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1511 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3023 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1542 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2107 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1898 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27944X Morohashi
2380 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4595 New Nelson (John Haig)
1880 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2025 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1901 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1953 2001 Kanji
3k15.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-15 SKIP code
3-5-13 SKIP code
4422.7 Four corner code
1-43-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e6d Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
bee, wasp, hornet
Kun:
はち
On:
ホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2223 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蜂起 【ホウキ】 uprising, revolt
  • 蜂窩 【ホウカ】 beehive, hive, honeycomb
  • 寄生蜂 【キセイバチ】 parasitoid wasp, parasitic wasp, parasitic bee
  • 養蜂 【ヨウホウ】 beekeeping, apiculture

Kun reading compounds

  • 蜂 【はち】 bee, wasp, hornet
  • 蜂蜜 【はちみつ】 honey
  • 虻蜂 【あぶはち】 horsefly and bee, horsefly and wasp

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng1
Korean:
bong

Spanish

  • avispa
  • abeja
  • avispón

Portuguese

French

4150 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1921 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
821 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1728 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1247 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33088 Morohashi
5331 New Nelson (John Haig)
2687 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1684 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-7 SKIP code
5715.4 Four corner code
1-43-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8702 Unicode hex code