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小 (U+5C0F) "small, insignificant" | ||
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Pinyin: | xiǎo | |
Bopomofo: | ㄒㄧㄠˇ | |
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | sheau | |
Wade–Giles: | hsiao3 | |
Cantonese Yale: | síu | |
Jyutping: | siu2 | |
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | siáu | |
Japanese Kana: | ショウ shō (on'yomi) ちい-さい chii-sai (kun'yomi) | |
Sino-Korean: | 소 so | |
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Chinese name(s): | (Top) 小字頭/小字头 xiǎozìtóu | |
Japanese name(s): | 小/しょう shō (Top) 小頭/しょうがしら shōgashira (Top) 尚頭/なおがしら naogashira | |
Hangul: | 작을 jageul | |
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Radical 42 or radical small (小部) meaning "small" or "insignificant" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
小 is also the 36th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Its inversed form ⺌ is the associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component 小.
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+0 | 小 |
+1 | 尐 少 |
+2 | 尒 (=爾 -> 爻) 尓 (=爾) 尔SC (=爾) 尕 |
+3 | 尖 尗 尘SC (=塵 -> 土) 当SC/JP (=當 -> 田) |
+5 | 尙Kangxi/KO (=尚) 尚 |
+6 | 尛 尜 尝SC (=嘗/嚐 -> 口) |
+9 | 尞 |
+10 | 尟 尠 |
+11 | 尡 |
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]
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See also: Kangxi radicals |
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GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above. |