also: びびたるもん
very small amount; insignificant thing; negligible amount
Used to emphasize that something is extremely small, trivial, or hardly worth considering. Often appears in contexts of comparison or dismissal.
彼の給料は微々たるものだ。
His salary is a very small amount.
その差は微々たるものに過ぎない。
The difference is nothing more than a negligible amount.
Standard kanji spelling using 々 for repetition.
Alternate kanji for もの; less common but acceptable.
Search-only form reflecting colloquial pronunciation of もの as もん; not a standard written form.
微々 is a reduplication of 微, “minute” or “insignificant”; たる is the attributive form of the literary copula たり, followed by もの, “thing.”