Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of わいしょう – see the following entry.
矮小
[adjective] small, little, petty, tiny
[adjective] diminutive, petty, slight, trivial
[noun] smallness, littleness, tininess, pettiness
[noun] slightness, triviality, pettiness
(This term, わいしょう, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)