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
- —特少advanced juvenile training school; special reformatory; juvenile hall for grave offenders
- —少領small territory; assistant director of a district (ritsuryō system)
- —少丁men 17-20 years, subject to a quarter of the obligations of older men (ritsuryō system)
- —少糖oligosaccharide
- —少陰the lesser yin (in yin-yang)
- —少陽the lesser yang (in yin-yang)
- —極少minimal amount
- —少飛male cadet (aged 14-19) in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (during WWII)
- —僅少差narrow majority; shade of difference
- —少国民junior citizen; young citizen
- —少資本small capital
- —少数者the minority
- —少数党minority party
- —少年院reformatory; juvenile training school; reform school; youth detention center (centre)
- —少年会junior society
- —少年団Boy Scouts
- —少年法Juvenile Act
- —年少者youth; minor; young people
- —美少女beautiful girl
- —美少年beautiful boy; pretty boy; handsome boy