Radical

What does the radical 小 mean?

The radical 小 means small; it has 3 strokes.

Quick facts
Meaningsmall
Strokes3
Kanji using it185
3 strokes185 kanji

small

Stroke order · 3 strokes

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Kanji using this radical

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Radicals and components: KRADFILE — Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), EDRDG licence. Stroke order: KanjiVG (Ulrich Apel), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Radical names translated by GoMe.