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少 shǎo — “few”

How to write and say the Chinese character 少 (shǎo), which means few — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Numbers & counting.

Stroke order笔顺

少 is written with 4 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

A little picture: grains of sand; 小 provides the pronunciation and meaning.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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