Translation guide
The process or result of becoming smaller in size, amount, or value. In Japanese, different words are used depending on what is shrinking and why.
Describing something becoming physically smaller, such as clothes, materials, or objects.
General noun for shrinkage, often used for fabrics, materials, or physical contraction.
This sweater shrank in the wash.
Contraction or shrinkage, often used in technical or scientific contexts (e.g., materials, muscles).
This material has low heat shrinkage.
Reduction in size, often used for images, scale, or abstract concepts rather than physical shrinkage of objects.
Reduce the image size.
Referring to a decrease in numbers, such as population, profits, or market size.
Decrease or reduction in number/amount. The most common word for shrinkage in a quantitative sense.
The population shrinkage continues.
Often used for market shrinkage, budget cuts, or scale-down of operations.
A drop or slump, often used for sudden or significant shrinkage in economic indicators.
Referring to loss of inventory due to theft, damage, or error.
市場の縮小に対応する。
Respond to market shrinkage.
売上の落ち込みが深刻だ。
The shrinkage in sales is serious.