少子化 – vocab dash

少しょう子し化か

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Meanings

Noun

1. declining birth rate; decline in the number of children; sub-replacement fertility

Kanji used

少few 子child 化transformation

Pitch accent

しょうしか

Composed of

少しょう子し

small number of children (per family); bearing few children; youngest child (in the family)

Noun

化か

change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification

Suffix

Used in vocabulary

少しょう子し化か対たい策さく

countermeasures to the falling birthrate

Noun

Examples2

少しょう子し化かと人じん口こうの老ろう齢れい化かを見み越こして業ぎょう務む内ない容ようを大おお幅はばに変へん更こうしたあの会かい社しゃは先せん見けんの明めいがあったわけだ。

It was very far-sighted for that company to change its policy to accommodate the decrease in numbers of children and the aging of society.

少しょう子し化かからの脱だっ却きゃくには、非ひ婚こんマザーの増ぞう大だいが必ひっ須すなのに、日本にほんの世よ論ろんはなぜかこの議ぎ論ろんを避さけている。

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.