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jmdict 2860625 Active (id: 2295820)
小っさな
ちっさな
1. [adj-pn] [col,uk]
▶ small
▶ little
▶ tiny
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2136180 小さな 1. small; little; tiny



History:
4. A 2024-03-24 19:10:21  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
小っさな	1,205		
ちっさな	20,315
  Comments:
I think one x-ref is enough.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2860624">ちっさい・1</xref>
@@ -14,0 +14 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
3. A 2024-03-24 04:46:27  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Bad Unicode character.
  Diff:
@@ -17 +17 @@
-<gloss>tiny​</gloss>
+<gloss>tiny</gloss>
2. A 2024-03-23 22:41:24  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Should be handled the same as 小さな.
  Diff:
@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>小っさ</keb>
+<keb>小っさな</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<reb>ちっさ</reb>
+<reb>ちっさな</reb>
@@ -11,2 +11,2 @@
-<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="2860624">ちっさい</xref>
+<pos>&adj-pn;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2860624">ちっさい・1</xref>
1. A* 2024-03-19 11:11:19  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Works like adj-na:

ちっさな声	134	9.5%
ちっさい声	657	46.6%
ちっさの声	No matches
ちっさな部屋	490	34.8%
ちっさい部屋	129	9.1%


ちっちゃい	1029128
ちっさい	138371
ちっさ	22429
小っさ	5370
  Comments:
ちっさ might see a bit of a renaissance here...  If you google it you'll get a mountain of pictures of one character from the popular anime Frieren.  She says it at a comical moment (using magic to see through a man's clothing...).  But Frieren didn't invent it.

Funny the relationship between ちっさい (I just added this)、小さな and ちっさ.  Various online comments claim ちっさ is an [abbr] of ちっさい, which may be true. But that doesn't seem to change the fact that this has also turned it into [adj-na], in parallel with 小さな (which looks a lot like 小さ[adj-na] with an obligatory な, where the stand-alone term must become 小さい...  But ちっさ can stand alone.).

The usage was a simple exclamation "it's small".  Is this an [abbr] of [adj-i], or is this [adj-na]. Or both.  Or maybe it's a parallel derivation (shortening of ちっさい, an emphatic form of ちいさな).  Whatever the case...

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