Illustration: Inside a compact metalworking business on a Japanese neighborhood street, five employees share a single busy workshop. One operates a lathe, another measures a finished component, and two pack matching parts into modest shipping cartons.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう小しょう企き業ぎょう

chuushoukigyou

small or medium-sized business

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの父親ちちおやは中小企業ちゅうしょうきぎょうの経営者けいえいしゃでした。

    His father was a small business owner.

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  2. 日本にっぽんでは製造業者せいぞうぎょうしゃのほとんどが中小企業ちゅうしょうきぎょうや個人商店こじんしょうてんである。

    Most Japanese makers are medium and small companies, and are family-type operations.

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

  3. また同年設立どうねんせつりつされた全国ぜんこく中小企業ちゅうしょうきぎょう団体中央会だんたいちゅうおうかいの会長かいちょうにも就つく。

    Also, he took the position of chairman of the National Federation of Small Business Associations established in the same year.

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

Kanji in 中小企業

  • 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-
  • 企undertake; schemeOnキKunくわだてる・たくらむ
  • 業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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