少子化 shǎozǐhuà declining birthrate Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 少 shǎo adjectiveadverb few few; little; small in amount; less than子 zǐ noun son (bound form) son; child; offspring化 huà affixparticle [...-ize] Suffix appearing after nouns or adjectives that expresses a transformation into a certain state or quality, meaning "-ize" or "-ization"