Illustration: Along a Japanese industrial side street, two neighboring metalworking businesses load their finished goods for a shared pickup. One occupies a tiny single-bay workshop where the owner works alone; the other fills a medium two-story building with several workers and three work bays.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう小しょう

chuushou

small and medium-sized

Example sentences

  1. 西側にしがわは西大路通にしおおじどおりに至いたるまで住宅地じゅうたくちと中小ちゅうしょうの工場こうじょうの密集地帯みっしゅうちたいである。

    On the west side of this station, many houses and mid-/small-sized factories are densely packed up to Nishioji-dori Street.

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

  2. ただ、経営努力けいえいどりょくにより黒字経営くろじけいえいを続つづけている中小ちゅうしょう鉄道事業者てつどうじぎょうしゃもある。

    On the other hand, however, there are some other small-and-medium-sized railway companies whose business has been kept in black due to their managerial efforts.

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

  3. また、中小ちゅうしょう規模きぼの病院びょういんを加くわえると約やく75もの病院びょういんが市内各地しないかくちに点在てんざいしている。

    Also, when including small and medium sized hospitals, there are an estimated 75 hospitals scattered across the city.

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

Kanji in 中小

  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
  • 小little; smallOnショウKunちいさい・こ-・お-

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