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

10 strokes
Radical:
wine, alcohol
Parts:
Variants:
bar-tending, serving sake, the host, draw (water), ladle, scoop, pump
Kun:
く.む
On:
シャク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2271 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 酌 【シャク】 pouring alcohol, person pouring alcohol (esp. a woman)
  • 酌婦 【シャクフ】 barmaid, waitress
  • 晩酌 【バンシャク】 drink at home with one's evening meal, dinner-time drink
  • 媒酌 【バイシャク】 matchmaking, acting as a go-between

Kun reading compounds

  • 酌む 【くむ】 to pour (sake), to serve, to drink (together), to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.), to sympathize with, to intuit, to understand

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhuo2
Korean:
jag

Spanish

  • servir sake
  • sacar
  • bombear

Portuguese

  • Trabalhar em bares
  • servindo sake
  • o anfitrião
  • sucção (água)
  • concha
  • balde
  • bomba

French

  • servir à boire
  • hôte
  • tirer (de l'eau)
  • louche
  • pompe
1343 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1919 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4778 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1835 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1831 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1863 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2022 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1591 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1788 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1854 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
982 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1331 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1441 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39768X Morohashi
1461 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6162 New Nelson (John Haig)
1429 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1536 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1400 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3252 2001 Kanji
7e3.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-3 SKIP code
1762.0 Four corner code
1-28-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
914c Unicode hex code