Corpus composition research
Kanji Pair Research
Enter one kanji to discover other characters recorded in the same JMnedict name spellings, or enter two kanji to inspect that exact co-occurrence. Every count in this research view describes the imported corpus—not population popularity in Japan.
小
Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 · 3 strokes
郷little, small
Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 · 11 strokes
Find exact-kanji names →home town, village, native place
Sparse evidence: this pair occurs in fewer than two distinct written forms in the active corpus. Treat it as a recorded example, not an established pattern.
Recorded names
Name readings containing both characters
The pair only has to occur in the same written form; the two kanji are not required to be adjacent unless counted in the adjacency statistics above.
Surname
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷SurnameOgō
おごう
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷SurnameKokō
ここう
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷SurnameOzato
おざと
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷SurnameOsato
おさと
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷SurnameKogō
こごう
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷SurnameKosato
こさと
小郷
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 小 and 郷Kozato
こざと
Evidence boundary
Co-occurrence is not popularity or etymology
The pair relation comes from exact JMnedict source rows through the compact kanji-usage index. KANJIDIC2 contributes character metadata only. A high corpus count can reflect dictionary coverage and should not be read as a national usage frequency.