<entry id="2192663" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1620810</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>小型</keb>
<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf05</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>小形</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>こがた</reb>
<re_pri>ichi1</re_pri>
<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf05</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1413530">大型</xref>
<s_inf>esp. 小型</s_inf>
<gloss>small-sized</gloss>
<gloss>small-scale</gloss>
<gloss>miniature</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<s_inf>esp. 小形</s_inf>
<gloss>small</gloss>
<gloss>little</gloss>
<gloss>tiny</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2011-05-18 16:02:07" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Nils Roland Barth</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Contrasting term</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -23,0 +23,1 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1413530"&gt;大型&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-05-18 23:58:45" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2017-06-30 17:06:59" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Not [adj-na].</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr/s, googits, gg5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -20 +20 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-na;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-no;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -22 +21,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-no;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -24,2 +23,4 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;small size&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;tiny&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;small&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;small-sized&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;small-scale&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;miniature&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-23 00:03:43" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>How's this?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Shinmeikai 7e, oukoku 11e, and meikyo all split 小型 and 小形. Daijr/s also emphasize their differences.

The nuance seems to be that 小型 describes things that are comparatively small within their category, while 小形 describes things that are small in general.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| 小型　 | 4,877,967 | 98.4% |
| 小形　 |    76,950 |  1.6% |
| こがた |     6,626 |  N/A  |</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -23 +23 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;small&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;esp. 小型&lt;/s_inf&gt;
@@ -26,0 +27,8 @@
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-no;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;s_inf&gt;esp. 小形&lt;/s_inf&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;small&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;little&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;tiny&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-24 09:40:56" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>All the example sentences are for 小型.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>