Radical 42


Radical 42 or radical small meaning "small" or "insignificant" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 41 characters 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.

Sinogram

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. It is a first grade kanji.