縮小

• 読み: しゅくしょう
• ローマ字: shukushou
• 漢字の分解: 縮 (shuku/chiji) — shrink, contract; 小 (shou/chii) — small, little
• 発音: /ɕɯ.kɯ.ɕoː/

意味

Reduction; scaling down; shrinkage. The act of making something smaller in size, scope, or scale.

A versatile noun and suru verb used across many domains. In business it means downsizing or cutbacks; in printing and computing it means reducing scale; in economics it refers to contraction. The opposite is 拡大 (kakudai, expansion/enlargement). Can function as both transitive and intransitive with する.

例文

1. 会社は事業の縮小を発表した。
2. 画像を縮小して送ってください。
3. 人口減少に伴い市場が縮小している。

使い方ガイド

場面: business, economics, computing

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 縮 (shuku, shrink/contract) + 小 (shou, small). Two characters reinforcing the concept of becoming smaller, creating a word broadly applicable to physical and abstract reduction.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal