noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• small, flat nose

noun:

• small city

noun:

• small claims lawsuit

noun:

• small amount of money (to buy sandals or cover travel expenses); small farewell gift

noun:

• small shield; screen

noun:

• small (compact) car; minicar

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

noun:

• apartment too small to be legally rented out, and hence let as office or storage space

noun:

• small shield over motorcycle gauges - From English "meter visor"

noun:

• small mochi placed on top of a big mochi
• two things heaped together

noun:

• small child (esp. a servant child in the Heian-period imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• small plate

noun:

• small toy bow that can be shot while sitting, popular in the Edo period

noun:

• small window; fenestella; scuttle (type of hatch on a ship)

noun:

• small insect; midge
• vermicule

noun:

• enjoying food, drink and entertainment in a small room ➜ 四畳半【よじょうはん】

noun:

• small army force

expression:

• 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 - proverb

noun:

• dried small sardines, etc. used to make fish stock ➜ 煮干し
• person in bank transfer scam whose role it is to withdraw the cash - slang

noun:

• small chair for children
• high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food

expression / noun:

• small hill; low hill; hillock

noun:

• small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state) - four character idiom

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• small-minded; petty; cowardly; chicken-hearted - idiom - vulgar

noun / ~する noun:

• small gathering; happy circle

noun:

• small-scale whiting (Sillago parvisquamis); blue whiting