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This study discusses the contrastive analysis of the adjective chiisai in Japanese and the adjective kecil in Indonesian. This study aims to describe and analyze the similarities and differences between chiisai adjective in Japanese and kecil adjective in Indonesian in terms of the study of semantic (meaning). To see the similarities and differences between chiisai and kecil adjectives, the equivalent technique was used which refers to linguistic phenomena by Koyanagi. Data in this study uses jitsurei from asahi.com, yahoo.co.jp, detik.com and tribunnews.com. The results of this study found 7 similarities and 1 differences between chiisai adjective and kecil adjective. The similarity of meaning contains small shape, small size, few, young, low volume, unimportant, and lost bravery. Meanwhile, there are two different meanings, namely worry about trivial things. In addition, this study found linguistic phenomena is the icchi and shinki phenomena.

Contrastive analysis, semantic, chiisai, kecil, linguistic phenomena