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

shark family, including some rays and skates

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