少

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

少 = 丿 + 小 : Mnemonic symbol: 少 looks like a smiley face. There's a food shortage (少) in the aorta, and Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Smiley (少) are looking for food in the living room (ao3). There's only one banana (丿) left. Soon they'll have to eat the many daisies (小) which are growing there.

少

shào = sh + ao4

young

少 character breakdown

少
- 丿
- 小
  - 亅
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏

丿

piě = pi + e3

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).

小

xiǎo = xi + ao3

small / tiny / few / young

小 = 八 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).

Characters with 少 as component

省

shěng = sh + (e)ng3

to save / to economize / to do without / to omit / to leave out / province / (archaic) central government department

省 = 少 + 目 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) opened a new office in the engine ((e)ng3), and to celebrate it he distributed saving (省) vouchers with little smileys (少) on them. Shortly afterwards the eye of providence (目) visits his office, all of the vouchers in his hands to save (省) on the bill, demanding Sherlock's services.

省

xǐng = xi + (e)ng3

to inspect / to examine / to be aware / to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)

沙

sha̅ = sh + a1

granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

沙 = 少 + 氵 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).

沙

sha̅ = sh + a1

surname Sha

吵

chǎo = ch + ao3

to quarrel / to make a noise / noisy / to disturb by making a noise

吵 = 口 + 少 : Charlie Chaplin (ch) and Smiley (少) are making a big noise (吵) about a mandarin (口) they both found at the same time inside of the aorta (ao3).

抄

cha̅o = ch + ao1

to make a copy / to plagiarize / to search and seize / to raid / to grab / to go off with / to take a shortcut / to make a turning move / to fold one's arms

抄 = 少 + 扌 : Charlie Chaplin (ch) likes the Smiley's (少) happy face and wants to copy (抄) it for his own comedy. He seizes (抄) Smiley in front of the aorta (ao1) and drags him to a photocopier using a toy claw (扌).

秒

miǎo = mi + ao3

second (unit of time) / arc second (angular measurement unit) / (coll.) instantly

秒 = 少 + 禾 : Marilyn Monroe (mi) played a prank on the smiley (少) in the aorta (ao3). She prepared a bowl of cereals (禾) for him but she glued the spoon with superglue (三秒教) to the table so that thon cannot pick it up.

妙

miào = mi + ao4

clever / wonderful

妙 = 女 + 少 : Marilyn Monroe (mi) painted a smiley (少) on the wall of the aorta's bathroom (ao4). As Bessy Coleman (女) notices the smiley she is totally flabbergasted and tells Marilyn how clever (妙) she must be to paint such a wonderful (妙) smiley (少).

妙

玅

miào = mi + ao4

variant of 妙[miao4]