少 shǎo▶ pocos, poco

Stroke order

少 is written in 4 strokes.

• 少

Senses

1. few
2. less
3. to lack
4. to be missing
5. to stop (doing sth)
6. seldom

Example sentences

• 今天的菜很少。Jīntiān de cài hěn shǎo.There is very little food today.
• 这儿的人很少。Zhèr de rén hěn shǎo.There are few people here.

Related words

• 多少cuántos, cuánto
• 减少reducir
• 缺少Falta, carecer
• 至少al menos
• 青少年Adolescentes

少 is pronounced shǎo and means “pocos, poco”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 少 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.