少
shǎoshào HSK1

few

少 shǎo frequency
few adjective
small in number or quantity; less; seldom

来这里旅游的人很少。

lái zhè​lǐ lǚ​yóu de rén hěn shǎo.

Few people come here for tourism.

lack verb
to lack or be missing from a total

数一下，还少一个人。

shǔ yī​xià, hái shǎo yī gè rén.

Count them; there is still one person missing.

stop adjective
to stop doing something or to do something less (often used as a command)

你少管闲事。

nǐ shǎo guǎn xián​shì.

Mind your own business.

少 shào
young idiom

这场精彩的演出老少皆宜。

zhè chǎng jīng​cǎi de yǎn​chū lǎo​shào​jiē​yí.

This wonderful performance is suitable for both young and old.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)