少

Translingual

Han character

少 (radical 42 小+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 火竹 (FH), four-corner 9020₀, composition ⿱小丿)

1. few, less, inadequate

Derived characters

• 尟 尠
• 抄 沙 妙 砂 紗 歩 省 秒 雀

References

• KangXi: page 296, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7475
• Dae Jaweon: page 590, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 561, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5C11

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Cantonese

Hanzi

少 (jyutping siu2, siu3, Yale siu2, siu3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

少 (POJ sháu, shàu, shéu, shèu, Guangdong sau³ [Bao'an, Dongguan, Hong Kong]; s'au³, s'au⁵, s'eu³, s'eu⁵ [Kwangtung]; s'au³ (shau³), s'au⁵ (shau⁵) [Hailu, Meixian]; seu³, seu⁵ [Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim sau3, sau4, seu3, seu4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

少 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō), せう (seu)
• Kun: すくない (sukunai), すこし (sukoshi), しばらく (shibaraku)

Compounds

compounds of 少

少女 (sōjo) 少年 (sōnen) 少々 (sōsō) 少し (sukoshi) 少ない (sukunai)

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Korean

Hanja

少
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 소 (revised: so, McCune-Reischauer: so)

• Name (hangeul): 적을()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

少 (pinyin shǎo (shao3), Wade-Giles shao³)

Adjective

少 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shǎo)

1. few, little, inadequate

Adjective

少 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shào)

1. young

Compounds

• 多少
• 很少 (hěnshǎo)
• 少女

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Vietnamese

Han character

少 (thiếu, thiểu, thẹo, thểu, thỉu, thẻo)