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
- —過少too few; too little; insufficient
- —僅少a little; a few; small; slight; trifling; insignificant; narrow (margin)
- —軽少trifling; slight
- —些少trifling; little; few; slight
- —少恩small favors; small favours
- —少閑short interval of leisure; short break or breather; lull
- —少時one's early days; little while
- —少者young person
- —少壮youth
- —少敵weak opponent; weak enemy
- —年少young; juvenile; child in the first year of kindergarten
- —微少very small; very little; slight; trifling; negligible; insignificant
- —鮮少very few; very little
- —少欲(being) slightly covetous; a little covetousness
- —老少young and old
- —少子small number of children (per family); bearing few children; youngest child (in the family)
- —少雨small amount of rainfall; (a) light rainfall
- —少婢young female servant
- —少許a little; a few; a bit; a touch; a smidge
- —短少short and insufficient