novel; story; (work of) fiction
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student
primary school; elementary school; grade school
size; dimension; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months
minimum; lowest; minimal; at a minimum
elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology
child (esp. one of elementary school age or younger)
platoon commander; section commander
adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
(small) knife; short sword; small sword
reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction
smallest (in size, degree, etc.); least; minimum; minimal
urine; piss; pee; breaking a contract
weak and small; inferior in strength and size; minor; young; youthful
diminutive; dwarfish; pygmy; narrow (e.g. thinking); small
minimum; minuscule; local minimum
mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit
love romance; love story; romance; romance story; romantic fiction
sixth year of elementary school; sixth year elementary school student
underestimation; undervaluation
"minor snow" solar term (approx. November 22)
quiz; short test; mini test
to a greater or lesser extent (degree); more or less
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
timidity; cowardice; prudence; pedantry
path; lane; small diameter; small radius
light eating; spare diet; not eating much
erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel
urine; small amount of water
bar; measure; short pause (in writing); petty principles; minor details
small and medium-sized enterprises; small and medium-sized businesses
slightly good luck (esp. as an omikuji fortune-telling result)
Shōsetsuka ni Narō (novel self-publishing website)
elementary and middle schools
state of reduced activity; lull; state of abeyance; stable condition
short trip; brief journey; excursion
trifling matter; urination; urine
elf; pixy; sprite; brownie; imp; gremlin
decimal point; radix point
(full-length) novel; long novel
cell phone novel; literary work originally written on a cellular phone
anecdote; brief (comic) story
small insect; midge; vermicule
adventure story; novel of adventure
fifth year of elementary school; fifth year elementary school student
elementary and middle school pupils
(our) company; (my) company; small company; small shrine
first year of elementary school; first year elementary school student
girl (usu. between 7 and 17); young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryō period)
I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
to urinate; to pee; to piss
small piece; fragment; bit
short piece (of music, writing); small work (painting, sculpture, etc.); literary sketch; small article; small item
elementary and middle schools
short essay; pamphlet; tract
small calibre; small caliber
elementary, junior high and high school
little theater; small theater
fourth year of elementary school; fourth year elementary school student
little shop; small shop; my shop; low class whorehouse in Yoshiwara (Edo period); low class brothel; passage formed under the eaves of houses after heavy snowfalls (Tōhoku region)
second year of elementary school; second year elementary school student
large, medium and small (businesses, rooms, etc.)
lull; breathing spell; respite; remission (of an illness); becoming stable
small number; small amount; fraction; decimal fraction
narrow; cramped; small-sized
xiaolongbao (eastern Chinese steamed bun); soup dumpling
don't put the trivial ahead of the important; don't sweat the small stuff; don't bother with the details (before embarking on a great enterprise); read the fine print; be careful of the small things (before embarking on a great enterprise)
Gothic novel; supernatural horror novel
third year of elementary school; third year elementary school student
to wet one's pants; to wet oneself
paediatrician; pediatrician
the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small
essentially the same with only minor differences
truth is stranger than fiction
minimization; minimisation
reduction (in size); shrinking; minimization; trivializing (an issue); making light of; playing down
small sum (of money); small amount; small denomination (banknote, coin, etc.)
lobe; lobule; lobulus; leaflet; foliole; microphyll
small han; small (feudal) domain
Hinayana (Buddhism); the Lesser Vehicle
truth is stranger than fiction
stinking of urine; childish; immature; inexperienced
novelization; turning into a novel
hillock; small hill; knoll; hummock
small garden; small place
serial; serialized novel; serialised novel
novel for the masses; popular fiction; pulp
small part (of the whole)
small business; small company
urinating outdoors; urinating by the roadside
less than; less-than mark (<); left angle bracket
person of little importance; insignificant person; narrow-minded person; child; dwarf
small quantity; small amount; narrowmindedness
contemporary novel; modern novel
small-minded person; person lacking in character
exaggeration; making a mountain out of a molehill
novel serialized in a newspaper
petit bourgeois; petty bourgeois
Manneken Pis (cupid-like statue urinating into a fountain); Petit Julien
fantasy novel; fantastic tale
small and medium-scale; small or mid-scale
having completed no schooling beyond elementary school; elementary school graduate
small scale; small family
lowly government servant; humble government servant; I; me
elementary school (in Japan; 1886-1941); primary school
crime novel; crime fiction
short article; short essay; (one's own) article or essay
spikelet; spicule; locusta
small hokora; small shrine
Little Kyoto; small town with historical features reminiscent of Kyoto
very timid; very nervous; faint-hearted
minor success; small success
poliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis; cerebral palsy
momentary thought; brief consideration; one's thoughts; one's opinion; one's view
abstinence (in Catholicism)
small ball; globule; spherule; pellet
short history; concise history
paedophilia; pedophilia; pederosis
short interval of leisure; short break or breather; lull
small portion; small serving
person with a humble salary; person of a low condition
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
reduction of armaments; disarmament
superficial knowledge; shallow wisdom
short break; breather; brief recess; rest
small circle; small circle (of a sphere)
small electoral district; single-member constituency
Hinayana Buddhism; Theravada Buddhism
morning soap opera; morning television serial
first-person novel; novel written in the first person
weak opponent; weak enemy
the same elementary school; student at the same elementary school; graduate of the same elementary school
brush; clash; encounter; skirmish
minor arcana (of a tarot deck); lesser arcana
little child; (arch.) male between 4 and 16 years old (ritsuryō period); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) disciple; I; me
spinocerebellar degeneration; SCD
(very) short story or article; short short story; conté
roman-fleuve; long novel; epic novel
serious novel; genuinely attempted novel
small projection; small protuberance
(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness
minor surgery; minor operation
novel about one's education, spiritual growth, etc.; Bildungsroman
an idle brain is the devil's shop
recurring decimal; repeating decimal
childish reaction (like that of an elementary school student); unsophisticated reaction
least common multiple; lowest common multiple
petit bourgeois; petty bourgeois
elementary, middle, and high school students
small container; person of small capacities
"minor cold" solar term (approx. January 6)
small dictionary; abridged dictionary; pocket dictionary; glossary
sho shogi (small 9x9 board shogi variant)
small question (in an exam); subsidiary question
novel depicting the author's personal life; I-novel
science fiction; sci-fi; fantasy fiction
venial sin; lesser sin; small sin; small crime
small magazine; our magazine; this magazine
detective story; police novel
slight difference; narrow margin
"grain full" solar term (approx. May 21)
dementia with Lewy bodies; DLB
short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days)
small lump; knob; nut; blob
"minor heat" solar term (approx. July 7)
childhood cancer; pediatric cancer
going off to urinate together
lowly person; person with a humble salary; insignificant person
petty bench of the supreme court; small claims court
cellule; cellula; small room (esp. with tatami mats); floret (of broccoli, etc.)
novel depicting customs and manners of the day
single-seat constituency system
a small-minded person being idle (tends to do evil)
little brother; younger brother; my younger brother; I; me
novel of formation (education); novel of character development; novel which traces the intellectual, moral, spiritual or social development of a young person; Bildungsroman
a small kindness; minor good deed
drinking together in a small group; drinking just a little (alcohol)
children's hospital; pediatric hospital
a little; a bit; a small amount; a little while; a short time; a moment
the lesser yin (in yin-yang)
junior citizen; young citizen
like water off a duck's back; (lit.) urine on a frog's face
novel written in colloquial Chinese
double-precision floating point
little sister; younger sister; my younger sister; I; me
lachrymal canal (lacrimal, lacrymal); lachrymal duct
small, light and thin (of consumer products, esp. electronics)
rubber bag for collecting urine; urinary bladder
shengjian mantou; shengjian bao; type of small, pan-fried pork bun
small hydropower; micro hydro
to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; to kill a small bug and help a large one
small hydropower; micro hydro; small-scale hydroelectric power generation
Small and Medium Enterprise Agency
small and medium enterprise management consultant
small piece of paper; scrap of paper; our newspaper; this newspaper
fictional biography; biographical novel
little three dragons; winning hand that contains two pungs or kongs of dragons and a pair of the third dragon
being bold and courageous, but also careful and meticulous
to sacrifice something small in order to save something great; to lose a leg to save one's life; (lit.) to kill a small bug and save a large one
sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; (lit.) to let a large bug live and kill a small one
small lot (manufacture, etc.)
short preface; brief foreword
infinite decimal; nonterminating decimal
novel written in epistolary style
to be content with small successes
floating-point arithmetic
collection of literary sketches; sketch book
petty; trivial; trifling; paltry; meager; meagre
small and of mediocre talent
small seal script (arising during China's Warring States period)
little emperor; spoilt only child (in China)
epitome of Tokyo; miniature Tokyo
balanced contraction; diminishing equilibrium; reductive balance
canaliculus; tubule; ductule
the lesser yang (in yin-yang)
to overlook minor differences for the sake of the common good
upstage center (in a noh play)
a small leak can sink a great ship
A Little Princess (novel)
canceled only in case of heavy rain
small and medium-sized rivers
principle of least action
rough endoplasmic reticulum; rough ER; granular endoplasmic reticulum
allegory; allegorical tale
small flower; floret; pseudanthium
Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette
Smaller Enterprise Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid System (retirement pension system established in 1959); SERAMA System; Chutaikyo System
finite decimal; terminating decimal
primary school district; elementary school district
miniature; small photograph
small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state)
spare moment; free minute; moment's leisure
small shrub; subshrub; undershrub
follicle; saccule; vesicle; little sac
electoral system comprised of single-seat constituencies and proportionally represented multiple-seat constituencies
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; SFTS
swashbuckling stories; martial arts fiction; chivalric knight novels; wuxia xiaoshuo
lesser curvature (of the stomach); curvatura ventriculi minor
a wise man keeps wide company; a fool joins a clique
Malpighian corpuscle (i.e. renal corpuscle)
small language model; SLM
lesser trochanter; trochanter minor
brief impression (of); quick comment (on)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Japan Association for Small Business Studies; JASBS
Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology
export reduction; export contraction
lowest common denominator; least common denominator; LCD
sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; (lit.) let a large bug live and kill a small one
Japanese Society of Small Animal Veterinary Medicine
minimally invasive surgery
Japan Pediatric Society; JPS
Japan Small Business Corporation; JSBC
Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons
parentheses; parenthesis; (round) brackets
Japanese Society of Pediatric Radiology
Japanese Society of Pediatric Dentistry; JSPD
Ikeda Elementary School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University
opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)
great virtues extinguish small grudges
small world; miniature; microcosmos
carotid body; carotid glomus
Small Island Developing States; SIDS
long precision floating point number
infinitesimal transformation
just-noticeable difference; jnd
native collating sequence
floating-point coprocessor
Edo-period small-size single-sheet prints containing puzzles, short stories, etc.; Edo-period playbills
smooth endoplasmic reticulum; smooth ER
Crime Writers' Association
single precision floating point number
minimum necessary; bare minimum; minimal requirement
timid and evasive (person); timid and makeshift (approach, measure, etc.)
markup minimization feature
extended precision floating point number
simple pleasure (in life)
Smaller Enterprise Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Corporation
floating-point (representation) system
cost minimization; cost minimisation
floating-point representation
floating-point base; floating-point radix
variable-point representation system
specific epithet; specific name
(in) a humble position with a small stipend
least significant bit; LSB
reduction left ventriculoplasty; Batista procedure
Small Business Credit Insurance Corporation
forming a four-of-a-kind by adding a self-drawn tile to an open three-of-a-kind
Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise
omitted tag minimization parameter
floating-point base; floating-point radix
Ikeda school massacre (June 8, 2001)
floating-point accelerator
American Academy of Pediatrics; AAP
sultry novel; suggestive story
pure decimal; decimal whose whole number part is zero
Diet members caucus supporting small business
least significant digit; LSD
floating-point arithmetic unit
small characters; small letters; childhood name
zonule of Zinn; Zinn's membrane; ciliary zonule
deflation; contraction of currency
fixed-point representation system
Xiaohongshu (Chinese social media and e-commerce platform); RED
single-seat constituency system
Small Magellanic Cloud (galaxy)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
indeclinable function word (e.g. particle, auxiliary, discourse marker, etc.)
minor festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)
xiao xu (hexagram 9 of the I Ching: the taming power of the small)
summary (e.g. in a thesis); summation
first anniversary of a person's death
xiao guo (hexagram 62 of the I Ching: preponderance of the small)
Reduced Instruction Set Computer (or Computing); RISC
(Edo-period) didactic novel or fiction
platelet aggregation; thrombocyte
national shrine of minor grade
first anniversary of a person's death
cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum); cardamon
small intestinal bacterial overgrowth; SIBO
pupil constriction; miosis
poliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis
olivopontocerebellar atrophy; OPCA
celiac disease; coeliac disease
sand martin (Riparia riparia)
brown-throated martin (Riparia paludicola); brown-throated sand martin
if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers; (lit.) one chō for a piss, one ri for a shit
young person; young servant
small mammal; small animal
small shaku (approx. 29.6 cm)