少 shǎo
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
少数
shǎoshù
a few; minority
Characters in this word
数 shǔ
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 攵 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 娄 a constellation 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 少数人同意。 Shǎoshù rén tóngyì. A few people agree.
- 只有少数人。 Zhǐ yǒu shǎoshù rén. There are only a few people.
- 少数学生来了。 Shǎoshù xuésheng lái le. A few students came.
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
- 少年 shàonián teenager
- 缺少 quēshǎo to lack; to be short of
- 至少 zhìshǎo at least
- 减少 jiǎnshǎo to reduce; to decrease
- 大多数 dàduōshù the majority; most
- 多数 duōshù most; the majority
- 分数 fēnshù score; grade
- 人数 rénshù number of people