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
visitor / guest / object (in grammar)
宾
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兵
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宀
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Mnemonic symbol: Robin Hood, 罗宾汉.
Brunhilde (bi) has often been robbed by Robin Hood (宾) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), so she hired some soldiers (兵) to protect her. But even as she leaves the encampment even the soldiers cannot prevent Robin Hood from snatching away her brand new graduation cap (宀) from her head.
Brunhilde (bi) has often been robbed by Robin Hood (宾) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), so she hired some soldiers (兵) to protect her. But even as she leaves the encampment even the soldiers cannot prevent Robin Hood from snatching away her brand new graduation cap (宀) from her head.
blind in one eye / blind / tiny / humble / to stare
眇
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少
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目
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Marilyn Monroe (mi), Smiley (少) and the Eye of Providence (目) are meeting in the aorta (ao3) for their meeting of the anonymous blind (眇) because they're all blind in one eye (眇). While Marilyn and Smiley are still able to gaze off into the distance (眇) with their other eye the Eye of Providence is completely blind (眇).
harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil / to level ground with such an implement
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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