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

24 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
广
hawk
Kun:
たか
On:
ヨウオウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1676 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鷹隼 【ヨウシュン】 hawk and falcon
  • 鷹揚 【オウヨウ】 large-hearted, generous, liberal, open-handed, magnanimous, easygoing, placid, composed, cool, collected
  • 放鷹 【ホウヨウ】 falconry, hawking
  • 鷹揚 【オウヨウ】 large-hearted, generous, liberal, open-handed, magnanimous, easygoing, placid, composed, cool, collected

Kun reading compounds

  • 鷹 【たか】 hawk, falcon
  • 鷹匠 【たかじょう】 falconer, hawker
  • 大鷹 【おおたか】 northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), female hawk (or falcon), falconry (using a northern goshawk)
  • 小鷹 【こたか】 small hawk or falcon (used for hunting), falconry (using small hawks or falcons)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying1
Korean:
eung

Spanish

  • halcón

Portuguese

French

1808 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1544 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2995 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2278 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3955 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2036 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2748 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
47377 Morohashi
3189 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7007 New Nelson (John Haig)
2237 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2344 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3q21.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-21 SKIP code
0022.7 Four corner code
1-34-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9df9 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
hunt, raid, gather
Kun:
か.るか.り-が.り
On:
シュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1785 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 狩猟 【シュリョウ】 hunting
  • 狩猟期 【シュリョウキ】 hunting season
  • 巡狩 【ジュンシュ】 Imperial visit

Kun reading compounds

  • 狩る 【かる】 to hunt (animals), to search (for a criminal), to go looking for (flowers, etc.), to gather (mushrooms), to pick (berries)
  • 狩り 【かり】 hunting, harvesting (e.g. berries, fruit), picking, gathering
  • 狩場 【かりば】 hunting ground, hunting preserve
  • 虫狩 【むしかり】 viburnum, Viburnum furcatum

Readings

Japanese names:
かり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shou4
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • cacería
  • caza
  • cazar

Portuguese

  • caçar
  • incursão
  • juntar

French

  • chasse
  • poursuivre
  • ramasser
1347 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1650 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2883 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1023 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1524 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
791 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1581 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1687 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1514 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1302 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
474 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
295 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
356 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
248 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20390 Morohashi
397 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3573 New Nelson (John Haig)
243 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
258 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1280 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2948 2001 Kanji
3g6.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
4324.2 Four corner code
1-28-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72e9 Unicode hex code