少 shǎo
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
少年
shàonián
teenager
Characters in this word
年 nián
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 干 — arid, dry
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 少年在跑步。 Shàonián zài pǎobù. The teenager is running.
- 那个少年笑了。 Nàge shàonián xiào le. That teenager smiled.
- 少年喜欢书。 Shàonián xǐhuan shū. The teenager likes books.
Related words
- 多少 duōshǎo how many, how much
- 少 shǎo few, little
- 不少 bùshǎo quite a few; quite a lot
- 青少年 qīngshàonián teenager; young people
- 少数 shǎoshù a few; minority
- 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
- 今年 jīnnián this year
- 明年 míngnián next year
- 年 nián year