少
HSK 1freq #538
Meanings
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- 1.young
- 1.few
- 2.less
- 3.to lack
- 4.to be missing
- 5.to stop (doing sth)
- 6.seldom
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Wiktionary
- 1.few; little in number; less; not many
- 2.weak; inadequate; insufficient
- 3.to lack; to be short of; to be deficient
- 4.to reduce (the amount or extent); to weaken; to lose; to stop; to cease
- 5.to despise; to look down; to belittle
- 6.slightly; moderately; a little; a bit
- 7.seldom; rarely; infrequently
- 8.in a little while; in a moment
- 9.slightly; somewhat
- 10.5th tetragram of the Taixuanjing (𝌊)
- 11.young; youthful; juvenile
- 12.later in a sequence; younger; youngest
- 13.childhood; youth; young period
- 14.young man; youngster; junior
- 15.deputy; assistant
- 16.young master of a rich family
- 17.a surname
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – four dots, perhaps three grains of sand (see 沙), to indicate "a few, a little". Phonetically borrowed from 小 (OC *smewʔ, “small”), which is depicted by three dots. Unrelated to 步 (and hence 歲), in which the lower component is the stylization of a foot.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
少來了！
Now stop!
少來了！
Cut it out!
少來了！
Don't give me that!
少一把刀。
There is a knife missing.
少了什么？
What is missing?
少一把叉子。
There is a fork missing.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
不在少數不在少数不多不少不少以少克眾以少克众僧多粥少兵少將微兵少将微最少凶多吉少古今少有多共少多凶少吉多多少少多少多少是好多退少補多退少补寡二少雙寡二少双寡恩少義寡恩少义寡情少義寡情少义寡聞少見寡闻少见寡見少聞寡见少闻少一缺二
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