Kanji1 / 4
少 kanji
few, little
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
すくないすこし
Words with 少
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —マッチ売りの少女The Little Match Girl (1845 short story by Hans Christian Andersen)
- —少年よ、大志を抱けboys, be ambitious
- —少額投資非課税制度Nippon Individual Savings Account; NISA
- —青少年健全育成条例healthy youth development ordinance; ordinance on healthy youth development
- —青少年保護育成条例juvenile protection ordinance
- —少林寺拳法世界連合World Shorinji Kempo Organization
- —青少年音楽日本連合Jeunesses Musicales du Japan
- —沖縄米兵少女暴行事件1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in Okinawa
- —全日本少林寺気功協会All Japan Shaolin Temple Qigong Association
- —総理府青少年対策本部Juvenile Problems Section in the Prime Minister's Office
- —アルプスの少女ハイジHeidi (1881 novel by Johanna Spyri, 1974 anime)
- —少年老い易く学成り難しstudy hard while you are young; boys grow old easily but getting learned is harder
- —国立青少年教育振興機構National Institution for Youth Education
- —多品種中少量生産システムFlexible Manufacturing System; FMS
- —重症熱性血小板減少症候群severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; SFTS
- —稀少scarce; rare
- —瑣少trifling; little; few; slight
- —縮少reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction; shrinkage
- —少食light eating; spare diet; not eating much
- —少水small amount of water