Little in Chinese
little · HSK 1
少
今天街上的人很少。 There are very few people on the street today.
Other ways to say little
More words with 少
How do you say little in Chinese?
Little in Chinese is 少 (shǎo). You can also say 小 (xiǎo), 一点 (yī diǎn), 有点 (yǒu diǎn), 一点儿 (yī diǎn r).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.