少

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Etymology[edit]

Pictogram (象形) : four sand granules. In Oracle bone form, it is depicted as four dots. Original form of 沙 (sand).

Han character[edit]

少 (radical 42 小+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 火竹 (FH), four-corner 90200, composition ⿱小丿)

  1. few, less, inadequate

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 296, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7475
  • Dae Jaweon: page 590, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 561, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5C11

Chinese[edit]

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simp. and trad.
 少

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (少, reconstructed)
Character (少), Pronunciation 1/2

Initial: 書 (26)
Final: 宵
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Rising (X)

 Fanqie: 書沼切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/ɕiᴇuX/ /ɕi̯ɛuX/ /ɕiɛuX/ /ɕiɛuX/ /ɕiawX/ /ɕĭɛuX/ /ɕjæuX/
Character (少), Pronunciation 2/2

Initial: 書 (26)
Final: 宵
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Departing (H)

 Fanqie: 失照切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/ɕiᴇuH/ /ɕi̯ɛuH/ /ɕiɛuH/ /ɕiɛuH/ /ɕiawH/ /ɕĭɛuH/ /ɕjæuH/
Old Chinese pronunciation (少, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
少 shǎo ‹ syewX › /*[s.t]ewʔ/ few
少 shào ‹ syewH › /*[s-t]ewʔ-s/ young

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
少 13706 小 宵 2 少 /*hmjewʔ/ 小轉註字
少 13708 小 宵 2 少 /*hmjews/

Adjective[edit]

少

  1. few, little
    很少人知道實情。 [MSC, trad.]
    很少人知道实情。 [MSC, simp.]
    Hěn shào rén zhīdào shíqíng. [Pinyin]
    Few people know the truth.
    隻有很少一點面包和餅干。 [MSC, trad.]
    隻有很少一点面包和饼干。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhīyǒu hěn shào yīdiǎn miànbāo hé bǐnggān. [Pinyin]
    There is only a little bread and a few biscuits.
  2. inadequate

Verb[edit]

少

  1. to lack, to be short of
    臥室裡少一隻電燈泡。 [MSC, trad.]
    卧室里少一隻电灯泡。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wòshì lǐ shào yī zhī diàndēngpào. [Pinyin]
    There 's a light bulb missing in the bedroom.
  2. to lose
    他屋裡少了東西。 [MSC, trad.]
    他屋里少了东西。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā wū lǐ shào le dōngxī. [Pinyin]
    He lost something in his house.
  3. to stop
    少說廢話！ [MSC, trad.]
    少说废话！ [MSC, simp.]
    Shào shuō fèihuà! [Pinyin]
    Stop chattering!

Adverb[edit]

少

  1. seldom
    懶惰的人很少會成功。 [MSC, trad.]
    懒惰的人很少会成功。 [MSC, simp.]
    Lǎnduò de rén hěn shào huì chénggōng. [Pinyin]
    Lazy people seldom succeed.

Adjective[edit]

少

  1. young
    年轻  ―  niánqīng  ―  young
    別看她歲數大,可長得少相。 [MSC, trad.]
    别看她岁数大,可长得少相。 [MSC, simp.]
    Bié kàn tā suìshù dà, kě cháng dé shào xiàng. [Pinyin]
    Despite her age, she still looked young.
Antonyms[edit]
  • 多 (duō, "a lot")

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
少

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

compounds of 少

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

少 (so)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 소 (revised: so, McCune-Reischauer: so)
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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

少 (thiếu, thiểu, thẹo, thểu, thỉu, thẻo)

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