Pinyin: shǎo

few; little

Example sentence

这儿人很少。

Zhè'er rén hěn shǎo.

There are few people here.

What 少 means

(shǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “few; little”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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