Example sentences
zhè这lǐ里rén人hěn很shǎo少。
There are few people here.
shǎo少chī吃diǎn点。
Eat less.
The story behind the character
少
Take 小 and chip one more dot off the bottom, and you get 少. The logic is neat: 小 is already small, remove a bit more, and it's "few." It literally reads "small, minus a dot."