| | some / a few / a little / (following an adjective) slightly ...er | HSK 1 |
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| | two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) | HSK 1 |
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| | few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom | HSK 1 |
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| | small / tiny / few / young | HSK 1 |
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| | how much / how many / several / a few | HSK 1 |
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| | small number / few / minority | HSK 2 |
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| | many / a lot / not few | HSK 2 |
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| | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several | HSK 4 |
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| | (in) the past few days / recently / (within) the next few days | HSK 6 |
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| | a smidgen / a little bit / a few | HSK 7-9 |
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| | just a very few (idiom); tiny number / not many at all / You count them on your fingers. | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the other day / a few days ago | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point | HSK 7-9 |
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| | for the past few years | HSK 7-9 |
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| | extremely few / a small minority | HSK 7-9 |
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| | number; figure / several; a few | |
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| | few / rare | |
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| | a few / several / how many | |
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| | in a few days / one of these days | |
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| | very small / very few / very minor | |
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| | one or two; a few / a little; just a bit | |
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| | a few; a little; a bit | |
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| | (literary) how many / quite a few | |
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| | several / quite a few | |
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| | (say) a few words | |
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| | few / scant / widowed | |
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| | to polish (a piece of writing) / to add a few finishing touches to (a piece of writing, painting etc) | |
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| | too few / insufficient | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | to have a few drinks / to drink to one's heart's content | |
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| | a little; a few | |
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| | (literary) few / a couple of | |
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| | rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown / secret to all but a few | |
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| | (idiom) just a word or two; a few isolated phrases | |
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| | in the past few days / lately | |
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| | to have a few (alcoholic) drinks (often implying a small party) | |
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| | to say a few parting words; to bid goodbye | |
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| | lit. can be counted on one's fingers (idiom) / fig. very few | |
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| | using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness | |
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| | tip / end / last few days | |
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| | to stand above / to occupy an important position / to rank (among the top few) | |
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| | lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom) / fig. few and far between | |
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| | the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom) | |
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| | empty / lonesome / very few | |
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| | elated / light and airy feeling (after a few drinks) / smug and conceited / complacent | |
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| | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | |
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| | to lay bare in a few words / to expose with a word / to point out bluntly | |
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| | sparse / few and far between | |
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| | difficult songs find few singers (idiom) / highbrow | |
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| | only remaining of the great (idiom); one of the few greats extant | |
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| | multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers | |
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| | to lay bare in a few words / to expose with a word | |
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| | some / few / a little (Cantonese) | |
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| | just a very few (idiom); tiny number / just a handful / not many at all / You count them on your fingers. | |
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| | this or that very day / in the next few days | |
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| | to harp on / over and over / merely ring changes on a few terms | |
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| | very few | |
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| | in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly | |
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| | rare as morning stars (idiom) / few and far between / sparse | |
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| | very few / rarely | |
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| | very little / very few | |
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| | to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score / not many; only a few | |
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| | to ejaculate within a few seconds during sex | |
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| | last digit (or last few digits) of a phone number, license plate number etc | |
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| | a few (days, years etc) ago | |
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| | a few days ago / a few days before / the past few days / the previous few days | |
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| | lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom) / fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it | |
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| | to take a closer look; to look at (sb or sth) a few more times | |
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| | very few; very little | |
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| | oligodendrocytes (Greek: cells with few branches), a type of cell in central nervous system / oligodendroglia | |
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| | Few words are best. / Brevity is the soul of wit. | |
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| | for the past few days | |
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| | a few years; several years / how many years? | |
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| | the last few years / last several years / recent years | |
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| | last few days of the month | |
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| | a wine cup dissolves complaints (idiom); a few drinks can ease social interaction | |
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| | a few drinks and a nice conversation (idiom) | |
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| | little water and few utensils / to live a frugal life (idiom) | |
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| | lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute | |
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| | (idiom) to allow oneself few comforts or pleasures | |
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| | the many or the few | |
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| | the past few days | |
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| | every few days (idiom) | |
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| | the brush stroke that dots in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point | |
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| | hurriedly / just a few steps away | |
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| | within the next few days / in a few days time | |
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