短少

Chinese

		lack; short	young; few; little young; few; little; lack
simp. and trad. (短少)		短	少

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duǎnshǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun² siu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): toán-siáu / té-chió

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duǎnshǎo [Phonetic: duánshǎo]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duǎnshǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tuan³-shao³
    • Yale: dwǎn-shǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doanshao
    • Palladius: дуаньшао (duanʹšao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dyun² siu²
    • Yale: dyún síu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn² siu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dün² xiu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn³⁵ siːu̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toán-siáu
    • Tâi-lô: tuán-siáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doafnsiao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tuan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ siau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tuan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siau⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: té-chió
    • Tâi-lô: té-tsió
    • Phofsit Daibuun: defcioir
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /te⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɤ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /te⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sio⁵³/

Verb

短少

1. to be deficient; to be short; to be missing

Synonyms

• 不夠／不够 (bùgòu)
• 不敷 (bùfū) (literary)
• 不滿／不满 (bùmǎn)
• 不足 (bùzú)
• 乏達／乏达 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 匱乏／匮乏 (kuìfá)
• 欠 (qiàn)
• 欠缺 (qiànquē)
• 短缺 (duǎnquē)
• 絕乏／绝乏 (juéfá) (literary)
• 缺乏 (quēfá)
• 缺如 (quērú) (literary)
• 缺少 (quēshǎo)
• 缺欠 (quēqiàn)
• 缺缺 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 虧／亏 (kuī)
• 貧／贫 (pín) (literary, or in compounds)
• 闕乏／阙乏 (quēfá) (literary)
• 闕如／阙如 (quērú) (literary)