The 少 family
少 · shǎo · shào young · ㄕㄠˇ — few
Know 少 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 吵、炒、抄、鈔. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 吵chǎo · ㄔㄠˇ部首 口 · mouthto quarrel; to make a noise62%
- 炒chǎo · ㄔㄠˇ部首 火 · fireto sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp62%
- 抄chāo · ㄔㄠ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto make a copy; to plagiarize62%
- 鈔chāo · ㄔㄠ部首 金 · goldmoney; paper money62%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 少 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 少 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 62%.
Words this family builds
- 多少
- 至少
- 不少
- 吵架
- 少校
- 少女
- 吵醒
- 少來
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