小包

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	to cover; to wrap; to hold to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet; to contract (to or for)
simp. and trad. (小包)		小	包

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiǎobāo

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄅㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² baau¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sió-pau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎobāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄅㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siǎobao
  - Wade–Giles: hsiao³-pao¹
  - Yale: syǎu-bāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheaubau
  - Palladius: сяобао (sjaobao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: siu² baau¹
  - Yale: síu bāau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu² baau¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu² bao¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ paːu̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sió-pau
  - Tâi-lô: sió-pau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioy'paw
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pau⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ pau³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pau⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pau⁴⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ pau⁴⁴/

Noun

小包

small bag, parcel, package or packet

Japanese

Kanji in this term
小	包
こ Grade: 1	つつ(み) > づつ(み) Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
小包み

Etymology

Compound of 小(こ) (ko, “small; little”) + 包(つつ)み (tsutsumi, “package”, from the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 包(つつ)む (tsutsumu, “to wrap; to pack”)). The tsutsumi changes to zutsumi as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こづつみ [kòzúꜜtsùmì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ko̞zɨt͡sɨmʲi]

Noun

小(こ)包(づつみ) • (kozutsumi) ^{←こづつみ (kodutumi)^?}

parcel, package

Derived terms

書(かき)留(とめ)小(こ)包(づつみ) (kakitomekozutsumi, “registered parcel”)
郵(ゆう)便(びん)小(こ)包(づつみ) (yūbinkozutsumi, “parcel”)
小(こ)包(づつみ)郵(ゆう)便(びん)物(ぶつ) (kozutsumiyūbinbutsu, “package, parcel”)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN