少 shǎo
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
少不了
shǎobuliǎo
cannot do without; inevitably involves
Characters in this word
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
了 le
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 亅 — hook
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 推动基层治理，少不了社区干部和志愿者的长期协作。 Tuīdòng jīcéng zhìlǐ, shǎobuliǎo shèqū gànbù hé zhìyuànzhě de chángqī xiézuò. Promoting grassroots governance cannot do without the long-term cooperation of community cadres and volunteers.
- 过节的餐桌上，家家都少不了饺子和热汤。 Guòjié de cānzhuō shàng, jiājiā dōu shǎobuliǎo jiǎozi hé rè tāng. On holiday dinner tables, no family is without dumplings and hot soup.
- 学好外语少不了每天坚持练习。 Xué hǎo wàiyǔ shǎobuliǎo měitiān jiānchí liànxí. Learning a foreign language well is impossible without daily practice.
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
- 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
- 少儿 shào'ér children
- 必不可少 bìbùkěshǎo indispensable; essential
- 或多或少 huòduōhuòshǎo more or less; to some extent