small

Builds 71 distinct compound words — ranked #69 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ショウ
訓 kun: ちい.さい・こ・お

Small. 小学校 elementary school, 小説 a novel, 最小 the smallest.

The ten most common compounds built on 小. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

71compounds built

1,295times those words occur

#48by productivity alone

#125by how often it turns up

Where 小 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 小. Each one opens its own map.

手hand小切手#10 家house; family小説家#22 切cut; earnest小切手#51 屋shop; roof; dealer小屋#74 道road; way小道#91

Words built on 小

小さなちいさな268 uses

小説しょうせつ250 uses

小さいちいさい216 uses

小説家40 uses

小鳥ことり37 uses

小切手こぎって37 uses

小屋こや36 uses

小包こづつみ36 uses

小麦こむぎ26 uses

小道こみち25 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.