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
- —特定少年18 and 19-year olds (legally adults but covered by the 2022 Juvenile Act)
- —文学少女literary girl; book-loving girl; bookworm girl
- —野球少年boy who spends all of his free time playing baseball
- —少数言語minority language
- —少産少死low birth rate and low mortality rate
- —希少元素rare element
- —少年漫画shōnen manga; boys' comics; manga aimed a younger male audience
- —少年院法Juvenile Training School Act; Reformatory Law
- —少年感化院reform school
- —少年審判所juvenile court
- —少年鑑別所juvenile classification home; juvenile detention facility
- —少年愛嗜好pedophilia
- —医療少年院medical reformatory
- —青少年犯罪youth crime; juvenile crime
- —羊水過少症oligohydramnios; oligoamnios
- —少数多体系few-body
- —少林寺拳法Shorinji Kempo (modern Japanese martial art based on Shaolin kung fu)
- —性的少数者member of a sexual minority; LBGTI person
- —少子化対策countermeasures to the falling birthrate
- —少子高齢化declining birth rate and aging population