Illustration: At a family dining table, three matching ceramic rice bowls sit together, but the bowl in front of one adult is modestly smaller in both width and height. The adult cradles it comfortably in one hand while serving rice with the other.

JLPT N3no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

小ちいさめ

chiisame

on the small side

Example sentences

  1. 鉢植はちうえのレモンは、地植じうえのモノより小ちいさめだ。

    Lemons planted in pots are smaller than those planted in the ground.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 駅舎えきしゃは小ちいさめの木造もくぞうで、自動改札機じどうかいさつきは簡易式かんいしき。

    The station structure is of wooden construction on the smaller side, and the ticket gates are of the simplified type.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 餅もちの大おおきさとの外観上がいかんじょうのバランスから、関東かんとうでは大おおきめの葉は、近畿きんきでは小ちいさめの葉はを好このんで使つかう傾向けいこうがある。

    Due to the balance between the size of the mochi and its appearance, there is a tendency to use larger leaves in the Kanto region and smaller leaves in the Kinki region.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 小

  • 小little; smallOnショウKunちいさい・こ-・お-

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