少
shǎoshào HSK1

few

少 shǎo frequency
few adjectiveadverb
few; little; small in amount; less than

卧室里的家具越少越好。

wò​shì li de jiā​jù yuè shǎo yuè hǎo.

The fewer pieces of furniture in your bedroom the better.

我应该少吃还是多吃？

wǒ yīng​gāi shǎo chī hái​shi duō chī?

Should I be eating more, or less?

seldom adverb
seldom; not often; (literary) for a short while or slightly

很少有人喜欢犯错。

hěn shǎo yǒu rén xǐ​huan fàn cuò.

Very few people like to make mistakes.

to lack verb
to lack; to be missing; to be short of the required amount; to owe

你少给了7块钱。

nǐ shǎo gěi le7 kuài qián.

You're seven dollars short.

女人是不是比男人少一根肋骨？

nǚ​rén shì​bu​shì bǐ nán​rén shǎo yī gēn lèi​gǔ?

Do women have one less rib than men?

to stop adverbverb
(imperative) used to tell someone to stop doing something or to do something less, such as "stop talking" or "mind your own business"

也许你应该多读少写。

yě​xǔ nǐ yīng​gāi duō dú shǎo xiě.

Maybe you should do more reading and less writing.

to belittle
(literary) to look down on; to despise; to think little of
少 shào
young noun
young; youthful; (bound form) junior rank in the military
surname
a Chinese surname
young master
a young person; young master of a wealthy family

Cross-References

Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
233rd most common 945.8 per million
Movie subtitles
277th most common 603.4 per million appears in 94% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
158.7 per million appears in 50% of films
Written text
250.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5C11

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)