"ちっちゃい" meaning in Japanese

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Adjective

IPA: [t͡ɕi̥t̚t͡ɕa̠i]
Etymology: Sound shift from 小(ちい)さい (chīsai). First attested in 1794. Etymology templates: {{ja-r|小さい|ちいさい}} 小(ちい)さい (chīsai) Head templates: {{ja-adj|ちっちゃい|infl=i}} ちっちゃい • (chitchai) -i (adverbial ちっちゃく (chitchaku)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=|lemma=ちっちゃ|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: chitchai [romanization], ちっちゃく [adverbial], no-table-tags [table-tags], ちっちゃかろ [imperfective, stem], chitchakaro [imperfective, stem], ちっちゃく [continuative, stem], chitchaku [continuative, stem], ちっちゃい [stem, terminative], chitchai [stem, terminative], ちっちゃい [attributive, stem], chitchai [attributive, stem], ちっちゃけれ [hypothetical, stem], chitchakere [hypothetical, stem], ちっちゃかれ [imperative, stem], chitchakare [imperative, stem], ちっちゃくない [informal, negative], chitchaku nai [informal, negative], ちっちゃかった [informal, past], chitchakatta [informal, past], ちっちゃくなかった [informal, negative, past], chitchaku nakatta [informal, negative, past], ちっちゃいです [formal], chitchai desu [formal], ちっちゃくないです [formal, negative], chitchaku nai desu [formal, negative], ちっちゃかったです [formal, past], chitchakatta desu [formal, past], ちっちゃくなかったです [formal, negative, past], chitchaku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], ちっちゃくて [conjunctive], chitchakute [conjunctive], ちっちゃければ [conditional], chitchakereba [conditional], ちっちゃかったら [conditional, past], chitchakattara [conditional, past], ちっちゃかろう [volitional], chitchakarō [volitional], ちっちゃく [adverbial], chitchaku [adverbial], ちっちゃさ [noun-from-adj], chitchasa [noun-from-adj]
  1. (childish) Alternative form of 小さい (chīsai, “small, little”) Wikipedia link: Daijisen#Online_search_engines Tags: alt-of, alternative, childish Alternative form of: 小さい (extra: chīsai, “small, little”) Synonyms: 小っこい (chikkoi) (ruby: ()) Derived forms: ちっちゃな (chitchana)

Alternative forms

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{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "okkii",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "大",
          "お"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "大っきい"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "小さい",
        "2": "ちいさい"
      },
      "expansion": "小(ちい)さい (chīsai)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sound shift from 小(ちい)さい (chīsai).\nFirst attested in 1794.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitchai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃく",
      "roman": "chitchaku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ちっちゃい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "ちっちゃい • (chitchai) -i (adverbial ちっちゃく (chitchaku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "ちっちゃ",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "chīsai, “small, little”",
          "word": "小さい"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "chitchana",
          "word": "ちっちゃな"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of 小さい (chīsai, “small, little”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ちっちゃい-ja-adj-2aXaSw1p",
      "links": [
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "小さい",
          "小さい#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "little",
          "little"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(childish) Alternative form of 小さい (chīsai, “small, little”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "chikkoi",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "小",
              "ち"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "小っこい"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "childish"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Daijisen#Online_search_engines"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ちっちゃい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi̥t̚t͡ɕa̠i]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ちっちゃい"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "okkii",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "大",
          "お"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "大っきい"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "chitchana",
      "word": "ちっちゃな"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "小さい",
        "2": "ちいさい"
      },
      "expansion": "小(ちい)さい (chīsai)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sound shift from 小(ちい)さい (chīsai).\nFirst attested in 1794.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chitchai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃく",
      "roman": "chitchaku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchakarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ちっちゃさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chitchasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ちっちゃい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "ちっちゃい • (chitchai) -i (adverbial ちっちゃく (chitchaku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "ちっちゃ",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "chīsai, “small, little”",
          "word": "小さい"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Japanese adjectives",
        "Japanese childish terms",
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese hiragana",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese い-i adjectives"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of 小さい (chīsai, “small, little”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "小さい",
          "小さい#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "little",
          "little"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(childish) Alternative form of 小さい (chīsai, “small, little”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "childish"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Daijisen#Online_search_engines"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ちっちゃい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕi̥t̚t͡ɕa̠i]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "chikkoi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "小",
          "ち"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "小っこい"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ちっちゃい"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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