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
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少 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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small / tiny / few / young
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Characters with 少 as component
to save / to economize / to do without / to omit / to leave out / province / (archaic) central government department
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to inspect / to examine / to be aware / to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
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to quarrel / to make a noise / noisy / to disturb by making a noise
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second (unit of time) / arc second (angular measurement unit) / (coll.) instantly
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to sauté / to stir-fry / to speculate / to hype / to fire (sb)
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inferior
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sand / gravel / granule / variant of 沙[sha1]
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clever / wonderful
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variant of 妙[miao4]
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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
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granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
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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
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