小“little” Kanjichiisai / shō
How to write 小
Meaning and readings
Meaning
little, small
Onyomi (音読み)
- しょう shō
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- ちい（さい） chii(sai)
- こ ko
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
日本はカナダより小さい。
Japan is smaller than Canada.
小さい (ちいさい)
今日、小テストがありました。
We had a quiz today.
小 (しょう)
この本はね、小学校の時に読んだよ。
I read this book when I was in elementary school.
小学校 (しょうがっこう)
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