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今日の漢字
Grade 1JLPT N5

little, small

3 strokes · frequency rank #114

On
ショウ
Kun
ちい.さい、こ-、お-、さ-

Stroke order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3

Common words

  1. しょうせんきょくsmall electoral district; single-member constituency1
  2. しょうせつnovel; story; (work of) fiction2
    • Fact is stranger than fiction.

    • Tom is reading a novel.

    • This novel is difficult to understand.

  3. しょうがっこうprimary school; elementary school; grade school3
    • Do you go to an elementary school?

    • My little brother goes to an elementary school.

    • I went to elementary school in Nagoya.

  4. しょうがくせいelementary school student; primary school student; grade school student4
    • They were school children then.

    • Elementary school children go to school for a term of six years.

    • He reddened like a schoolboy.

  5. ちゅうしょうきぎょうsmall and medium-sized enterprises; small and medium-sized businesses5
    • Small businesses will have to tighten their belts to survive.

    • They are too far in debt to get the small business loan.

  6. こがたsmall-sized; small-scale; miniature6
    • Two airplanes, one large and one small, were at rest in the hangar.

    • Hire a minivan by the hour.

    • The boy is his father in miniature.

  7. しょうがくelementary school; primary school; grade school7
    • He is in fourth grade of elementary school.

    • My fifth-year junior school son has transferred into a school in Nagoya from Shizuoka.

  8. こじまsmall island; islet8
    • Our boat approached the small island.

    • Mr Kojima had a smoke after breakfast.

  9. おがわstream; brook; creek9
    • We can hear a brook murmuring.

    • Drink water from a stream.

    • A stream flows into the lake.

  10. しゅくしょうreduction; curtailment; cut; cutback10
    • I'm going to make reduced copies.

    • The economy recorded a negative growth.

    • Metal contracts when cooled.

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