青少年
qīngshàonián
teenager; young people
Characters in this word
少 shǎo
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
年 nián
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 干 — arid, dry
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 青少年爱运动。 Qīngshàonián ài yùndòng. Teenagers love sports.
- 青少年要睡好。 Qīngshàonián yào shuì hǎo. Teenagers need to sleep well.
- 这里青少年多。 Zhèlǐ qīngshàonián duō. There are many teenagers here.
Related words
- 青年 qīngnián young person; young people
- 青春 qīngchūn youth
- 青 qīng green
- 多少 duōshǎo how many, how much
- 少 shǎo few, little
- 不少 bùshǎo quite a few; quite a lot
- 少数 shǎoshù a few; minority
- 少年 shàonián teenager
- 缺少 quēshǎo to lack; to be short of
- 至少 zhìshǎo at least
- 减少 jiǎnshǎo to reduce; to decrease
- 半年 bànnián half a year