少

HSK 1#456 by frequencyradical 小

shǎo["a","ad","v","d","g"]

few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom

shào

young

Examples

少贫嘴。

Quit chattering.

少了什么？

What is missing?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.