Mnemonic comic for 少
Mnemonic
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.
All translations for 少
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom
少 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
small / tiny / few / young
小
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八
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亅
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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).
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
to inspect / to examine / to be aware / to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
to save / to economize / to do without / to omit / to leave out / province / (archaic) central government department
省
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少
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目
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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.
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
Words with 少
everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); inauspicious / everything points to disaster
lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom) / fig. not enough to go around / demand exceeds supply
it is better to avoid unnecessary trouble (idiom) / the less complications the better
using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
talk nicely and avoid disputes / give compliments and not remarks
(after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment)