少
Pinyin: shǎo
few; little
Example sentence
这儿人很少。
Zhè'er rén hěn shǎo.
There are few people here.
What 少 means
少 (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.