friend

子: a boy, a girl, a child / 小: small, little

個:

The katakana syllable コ (ko). Its equivalent in hiragana is こ (ko). It is the tenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is カ行オ段 (ka-gyō o-dan, “row ka, section o”).

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

reef / a ritual vessel

(polite) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

a personal or private matter / (by extension) selfishness

a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law

personal, private / secret