IDENTITY
少shǎofew; little
HSK 1Top 150
CORE MEANING
few; little
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.few; littleHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 小small radical (xiǎo)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿱小丿
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
多少duōshaohow many
很少hěn shǎovery few
不少bùshǎoquite a few
Graded examples
我们班女生很少。Wǒmen bān nǚshēng hěn shǎo.HSK2
Our class has very few girls.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Small (小) plus a slash — cut down to few.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #150
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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