小しょう市し民みん

noun

petty bourgeois; lower middle class

Refers to the social class of small-scale business owners, shopkeepers, and lower-level white-collar workers, often with a nuance of conventional, narrow-minded, or materialistic values. Used in sociological, historical, and literary contexts.

• 彼かれは小しょう市し民みん的てきな生せい活かつに満まん足ぞくしている。

  He is content with a petty bourgeois lifestyle.

• この小しょう説せつは小しょう市し民みんの日にち常じょうを描えがいている。

  This novel depicts the daily life of the lower middle class.