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Hanzi Character Search: 少

5C11

少
few, less, inadequate
Radical 𡭔
Strokes (without radical) 1 Total Strokes 4
Mandarin reading shaǒ shaò Cantonese reading siu2 siu3
Japanese on reading shou Japanese kun reading sukunai sukoshi shibaraku
Korean reading so Vietnamese reading thiểu

CEDICT Entries:

   [ shaǒ laí ]    refrain (from doing sth), (coll.) Come on!, Give me a break!, Save it!
   [ shaò xiān duì ]    Young Pioneers of China, abbr. for 少年先鋒隊|少年先锋队[Shao4 nian2 Xian1 feng1 dui4]
   [ shaò ér ]    child
   [ shaò ér ]    not suitable for children
   [ shaǒ roù ]    (coll.) (usually used in the negative) (can't) hurt (to do sth), (won't) hurt (to do sth)
   [ shaò zhuàng laǒ shāng beī ]    if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age
   [ shaò zhuàng paì ]    young guard, young and vigorous group with new ideas, new wave
   [ shaò liǎn hūn shì bàn chéng quán ]    When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done. (idiom)
   [ shaò ]    young married woman
   [ shaǒ ān zaò ]    variant of 少安毋躁[shao3 an1 wu2 zao4]
   [ shaò jiàng ]    major general, rear admiral, air vice marshal
   [ shaò nián xiān fēng duì ]    Young Pioneers of China (primary school league, a preparation for Communist Youth League), abbr. to 少先隊|少先队
   [ shaò nián laǒ laí bàn ]    husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
   [ shaò nián gōng ]    Children's Palace, institution where children can take part in various extracurricular activities
   [ shaǒ shù ]    small number, few, minority
   [ shaǒ shù mín ]    national minority, ethnic group
   [ shaǒ shù mín xiāng ]    ethnic township (formal village level subdivision of PRC county)
   [ shaò dōng ]    boss's son, young master
   [ shaò ye ]    son of the boss, young master of the house, your son (honorific)
   [ shaǒ zhì ]    oligodendrocytes (Greek: cells with few branches), a type of cell in central nervous system, oligodendroglia
   [ shaǒ guǎn xián shì ]    Mind your own business!, Don't interfere!
   [ shaǒ jiàn ]    rare, not familiar (to the speaker), sth rarely experience, hard to see
   [ shaǒ jiàn duō ]    lit. rarely seen, very strange (idiom); to express amazement due to lack of experience, naive expression of excitement due to ignorance
   [ shaǒ ]    a little, a few
   [ shaǒ shuō weí jiā ]    Few words are best., Brevity is the soul of wit.
   [ shaǒ xuǎn ]    (literary) a little while
   [ shaǒ jiàn ]    soon, a short while, a narrow gap, slightly better (state of health)
   [ shaò yáng bìng ]    name of disease in TCM
   [ shaò yáng jīng ]    lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM)
   [ shaǒ qǐng ]    in a short while, presently
⇒    [ rén yān shaǒ ]    no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate
⇒    [ shaǒ shèng duō ]    using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
⇒    [ liú shaò ]    Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
⇒ 退   [ duō tuì shaǒ ]    (after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment)
⇒    [ guǎ èr shaǒ shuāng ]    peerless, second to none (idiom)
⇒    [ nián shaò zhī ]    young and inexperienced, unsophisticated
⇒    [ shaǒ chéng ]    absolute necessity, sine qua non
⇒    [ è shaò ]    young thug, malicious young ruffian
⇒    [ shaǒ ]    very little, very few
⇒    [ shaǒ shù ]    extremely few, a small minority
⇒    [ yáng chǎng è shaò ]    city infested with foreign adventurers (esp. of Shanghai in pre-Liberation China) (idiom)
⇒    [ haǐ jūn shaò ]    lieutenant commander
⇒    [ jiǎn shaǒ ]    to lessen, to decrease, to reduce, to lower
⇒    [ shū moú shaǒ lvè ]    unable to plan, inept at strategy (idiom)
⇒    [ bàn xuè bǎn jiǎn shaǒ zōng zhēng ]    severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)
⇒    [ shaǒ chéng duō ]    Many little things add up to sth great., Many little drops make an ocean. (idiom)
⇒    [ kōng zhōng shaò ye ]    airline steward
⇒    [ laǒ laí shaò ]    old but young at heart
⇒    [ laǒ shaò ]    cheating neither old nor young, treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously, Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
⇒    [ huā yoǔ chóng kaī rén zaì shaò nián ]    a flower may blossom again, but a person cannot get young again (proverb)
⇒    [ nuò shaǒ ]    Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania (Tw)
⇒    [ guò shaǒ ]    too few, insufficient
⇒    [ qián duō shì shaǒ jiā jìn ]    lots of money, less work, and close to home, ideal job
⇒    [ xiǎn shaǒ ]    very few, rarely

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