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English definition few, less, inadequate
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system shao3 shao4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) shǎo(1187) shao(362) shào(323)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *shiɛ̀u *shiɛ̌u
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system siu2
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system siu2
Japanese (Kana) ショウ すくない すこし かく わかい
Japanese (Hepburn) sukunai sukoshi shibaraku
Sino-Japanese shou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system so
Hangul 소:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ thiểu
Unicode radical / stroke count + 1
Unicode total stroke count 4
Cangjie FH
Four corner code 9020.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 1
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 561, character 2
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 296, position 20
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 590, position 2
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1149e
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 442, row 4, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 297, character 27 page 415, character 1
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 175, character 6
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 122A
page 440, position 6
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 1220
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 5675
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 2857 2858
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 3966 3967
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 2745 2746
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 1056
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0166
PRC telegraph code 1421
Taiwan telegraph code 1421
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 23569 / 5C11