Character Details
| few / little | Ascii: 24536 | w249 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 少 | shǎo | shaowe | 3 | 小 (small) + 丿 (slash) → few | 少 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Only a few people can make a small ugly smile like that. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - How much? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 46 - 小 | xiǎo | small | small | three small dots | 小 少 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 小 (small) + 丿 (slash) → few | 小 (semantic origin) | 丿 (phonetic) | phonetic from 丿 | ||||||||