少少

Chinese

		young; few; little young; few; little; lack	young; few; little young; few; little; lack
simp. and trad. (少少)		少	少

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shǎoshǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄠˇ ㄕㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² siu²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): séu-séu
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zieo³ zieo³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chió-chió

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shǎoshǎo [Phonetic: sháoshǎo]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄠˇ ㄕㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shǎoshǎo
  - Wade–Giles: shao³-shao³
  - Yale: shǎu-shǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaoshao
  - Palladius: шаошао (šaošao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: siu² siu²
  - Yale: síu síu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: siu² siu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: xiu² xiu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ siːu̯³⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    小小
    少少
    指事
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: séu-séu
  - Hakka Romanization System: seu^ˋ seu^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: seu³ seu³
  - Sinological IPA: /seu̯³¹ seu̯³¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zieo³ zieo³ [Phonetic: zieo⁵ zieo³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: câ̤u-câ̤u
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieu⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ t͡sieu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zieo³ zieo³ [Phonetic: zieo⁵ zieo³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieu³³²⁻²¹ t͡sieu³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chió-chió
  - Tâi-lô: tsió-tsió
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cioycioir
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sio⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sio⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sio⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sio⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɤ⁴¹/

Adjective

少少

(Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Puxian Min) a little; a little bit
你唔肚餓都要食少少嘢㗎！ [Cantonese, trad.]
你唔肚饿都要食少少嘢㗎！ [Cantonese, simp.]
nei⁵ m⁴ tou⁵ ngo⁶ dou¹ jiu³ sik⁶ siu² siu² je⁵ gaa²! [Jyutping]
Even if you're not hungry, you still need to eat a little bit of food!

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 一點 (“a little”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		一點
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	一點兒, 點兒, 點子
	Taiwan	一點, 一點點
	Harbin	一點兒
	Malaysia	一點
	Singapore	一點, 一點點
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	一點兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	一點兒
	Xi'an	一點兒
	Xining	一絲絲, 一點兒
	Xuzhou	一點兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	一點兒, 一點點
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	一點兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	一點兒, 點兒
	Wuhan	一點, 一點點, 一點個, 一丁丁, 一丁家, 一夾夾, 一咪咪, 一咪嘀
	Liuzhou	一點
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	一點兒
	Yangzhou	一的個, 一的個子, 一點點, 尕尕, 一尕尕
	Hefei	一點
Cantonese	Guangzhou	一啲, 啲, 少少
	Hong Kong	一啲, 啲, 少少, 些少
	Taishan	一尼
	Dongguan	一啲
	Singapore (Guangfu)	啲, 一啲, 少少
Gan	Nanchang	一滴, 一滴子
Gan	Pingxiang	一滴仔, 一點仔
Hakka	Meixian	一滴, 一滴仔, 一滴過仔
	Yudu	一滴子
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	一息仔, 一滴仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	一息, 一息仔, 一滴仔, 息把仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	一息
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	一屑
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	一息
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	一兜仔
	Singapore (Dabu)	少少
Huizhou	Jixi	一點
Jin	Taiyuan	一點點
Jin	Xinzhou	些些兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	一習仔, 咪仔, 咪咪仔, 咪毛仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	一滴囝, 仂囝, 仂滴
	Fuqing	一滴囝
	Matsu	仂儉
	Sitiawan (Gutian)	仂囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	一點仔, 淡薄仔, 淡薄, 一疕仔, 一絲仔
	Quanzhou	一點仔, 淡薄仔, 淡薄, 一疕仔, 一絲仔
	Zhangzhou	一點仔, 淡薄仔, 淡薄, 一疕仔, 一絲仔
	Zhao'an	淡薄仔
	Taipei	一點仔
	Kaohsiung	一屑仔
	Yilan	一屑仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	一喙仔
	Taichung	一屑仔
	Taichung (Wuqi)	一屑仔
	Tainan	一屑仔, 淡薄仔 GT, 一疕仔 GT, 一絲仔 GT, 分分仔 GT
	Hsinchu	一屑仔
	Penghu (Magong)	一滴仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	淡薄
	Singapore (Hokkien)	淡薄
	Manila (Hokkien)	淡薄, 一絲仔, 淡薄仔, 一點仔
	Chaozhou	一滴囝, 滴囝, 須囝
	Shantou	滴囝
	Shantou (Chenghai)	一滴囝
	Jieyang	滴囝, 滴滴囝, 些囝, 些須囝, 須囝, 淡薄
	Puning	一滴囝, 滴囝, 滴滴囝, 零滴囝, 零塊, 塊囝, 零塊囝
	Singapore (Teochew)	淡薄, 滴滴囝
	Wenchang	滴滴
	Haikou	一滴仔, 滴仔, 一滴
	Singapore (Hainanese)	滴滴
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	一啲, 啲
Wu	Shanghai	一眼, 一點, 一眼眼, 一沰沰, 一點點, 一彌彌, 一滴滴
	Shanghai (Jinshan)	一乃乃
	Shanghai (Jiading)	一猛猛
	Shanghai (Chongming)	一眼眼, 一點點
	Suzhou	一點點, 一滴滴
	Danyang	一眼眼
	Ningbo	一眼眼, 一眼, 一沰, 一沰沰
	Wenzhou	眼兒, 一眼兒, 眼仔兒, 一眼仔兒, 釐兒, 一釐兒, 釐仔兒, 一釐仔兒, 釐絲兒, 一釐絲兒
	Jinhua	一點兒, 點兒
Xiang	Changsha	一點, 一點咖子, 點咖子, 一滴咖子, 滴咖子, 點把點子
	Loudi	滴
	Shuangfeng	一滴唧
Note	GT: General Taiwan (no particular region identified)

Adverb

少少

(literary or Cantonese) slightly; a little
我有少少緊張。 [Cantonese, trad.]
我有少少紧张。 [Cantonese, simp.]
ngo⁵ jau⁵ siu² siu² gan² zoeng¹. [Jyutping]
I'm slightly nervous.

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “少少”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 584.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
少	少
しょう Grade: 2	しょう Grade: 2
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 少少 – see the following entry.

【少々しょうしょう】

[adverb] a small amount

[phrase] Just a minute!

Alternative spellings
小小, 小々

(This term, 少少, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)