Illustration: At a neighborhood ceramics stall, an anxious apprentice points to a tiny uneven spot in the glaze beneath a sturdy rice bowl's rim. The customer has to lean very close even to find it, then smiles and makes an easy, dismissive wave.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

些さ細さい

sasai

trivial, minor

Example sentences

  1. 些細ささいな間違まちがいをした。

    I made a little mistake.

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  2. 彼かれは些細ささいなことで腹はらを立たてる。

    He gets angry over trivial things.

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  3. これはほんの些細ささいな感謝かんしゃの印しるしです。

    This is a small token of my gratitude.

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Kanji in 些細

  • 些a little bit; sometimesOnサ・シャKunちと・ちっと・いささか
  • 細dainty; get thinOnサイKunほそい・ほそる・こまか

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