few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

= 丿 + : 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.
young

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

= + : 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).

Characters with 少 as component

visitor / guest / object (in grammar)

= + : 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.
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) meets a bat (夕) in the bathroom of the Eiffel Tower (ei4). They make a bet: The one who is older (岁) will be allowed to eat the other using a fork (山).
variant of 妙[miao4]

= + : Marilyn Monroe (mi) painted a smiley (少) on the wall of the aorta's bathroom (ao4). As Bessy Coleman (女) notices the smiley she is totally flabbergasted and tells Marilyn how clever (妙) she must be to paint such a wonderful (妙) smiley (少).
granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).
variant of 尟|鲜[xian3]
variant of 鮮|鲜[xian3]
cotton yarn / muslin
money / paper money / variant of 抄[chao1]

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) made a deal with Smiley (少) to buy its golden harpoon (钅). In front of the aorta he hands it a bundle of paper money (钞) which is itself skewered on a golden harpoon (钅).
blind in one eye / blind / tiny / humble / to stare

= + : 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).
old variant of 步[bu4]
the limit / tip of branch
harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil / to level ground with such an implement
clamor / uproar / annoyance

Words with 少

many / a lot / not few
everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom); inauspicious / everything points to disaster
no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate
it is better to avoid unnecessary trouble (idiom) / the less complications the better
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
indispensable; essential
using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness

Sentences with 少

zhǐ
yi̅n
shǒu
zho̅ng
que̅
shǎo
chèn
shǒu
de
bi̅ng
qì