Small Plate
Small Dish, Little Plate, Little Dish
noun
You have a small plate. Wait, is that it? Yep, that's it.
This word uses kun'yomi readings. 皿 uses the same さら reading you learned with the kanji, except it's ざら now because of rendaku. But 小 uses an alternate kun'yomi reading (こ) which you might not have seen yet, so here's a mnemonic to remember it:
Who uses small plates? 子 (こ) do. Naturally, kids use small plates when they have their meals, because they themselves are small, and the food they eat is small, and it fits on small plates. If it helps, you can also think of a 小皿 as the child version of a plate: a 子ざら, if you will.
貝の小皿
small shell-shaped plates, small plates made of shell
プラスチックの小皿
small plastic plates
トマトの小皿
the small plate of tomatoes
小皿にのせる
to place on a small plate
小皿にならべる
to arrange on a small plate
小皿にもる
to serve on a small plate
小皿をならべる
to arrange small plates
小皿をつかう
to use small plates
小皿を見せる
to show the small plates
バーのテーブルの上には小皿がたくさんあった。
There were many small plates on the bar table.
小皿の上にはオリーブが五つあった。
There were five olives on the small plate.
その小皿は手の大きさくらいです。
The small plate is about the size of a hand.