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Mythic Mandarin

多少 (duō shǎo): meaning and stroke order

多少 (duō shǎo) means number; amount, somewhat, how much?; how many?.

多少

Simplified
多少
Traditional
多少 (same form)
Pinyin
duō shǎo · duō shao

Stroke order of 多少

多

  • duō many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

少

  • shǎo few; less
  • shào young
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 多少

  1. duō shǎo
    • number; amount
    • somewhat
  2. duō shao
    • how much?; how many?
    • (phone number, student ID etc) what number?

Radicals of the characters

多
Radical 夕 (Kangxi radical 36) · 6 strokes · 夕 on top, 夕 below
少
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

多少 in our stories

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  • 马丽说：“苹果多少钱一斤？”

    Mǎ Lì shuō píngguǒ duōshao qián yì jīn

    Ma Li says, "How much are the apples a jin?"

    From the story Buying apples HSK 1

  • 林东说：“谢谢！多少钱？”

    Lín Dōng shuō xièxie duōshao qián

    Lin Dong says, "Thanks! How much is it?"

    From the story Taking a taxi HSK 1

  • 他变成一个白衣书生，找到袁守诚，故意问：“你说明天什么时候下雨，下多少？”

    tā biànchéng yí gè báiyī shūshēng zhǎodào Yuán Shǒuchéng gùyì wèn nǐ shuō míngtiān shénme shíhou xiàyǔ xià duōshao

    He turned himself into a scholar in white, found Yuan Shoucheng and asked on purpose, "Tell me: when will it rain tomorrow, and how much?"

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 多少

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).