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    3. 小市民

    小市民

    小しょう市し民みん

    petty bourgeois

    KMT10News #43+1NounEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab13 strokes

    しょうしみん

    Noun

    1.
    petty bourgeois, lower middle class

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    彼かれは典てん型けい的てきな小しょう市し民みんだ。

    He is a typical petty bourgeois.

    KMT5Emotions & Psychology
    小しょう市し民みん的てきな生せい活かつを送おくることに満まん足ぞくしている。

    I am content with living a lower-middle-class life.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyDaily Life
    彼かれは小しょう市し民みん的てきな価か値ち観かんに縛しばられている。

    He is bound by petty bourgeois values.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyCulture & Traditions
    彼かれの小しょう市し民みん的てきな不ふ安あんは、日ひ々びの生せい活かつに根ね差ざしている。

    His petty bourgeois anxieties are rooted in daily life.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyDaily Life
    多おおくの小しょう市し民みんは、政せい治じに無む関かん心しんな傾けい向こうがある。

    Many lower-middle-class citizens tend to be indifferent to politics.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyPolitics & LawCulture & Traditions

    Kanji that make up this word

    小
    ちい.さい・こ-・お-・さ-…(6)
    little・small
    市
    いち…(3)
    market・city・town
    民
    たみ…(3)
    people・nation・subjects
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