• 少しょう

  small, little, few

• 少年しょうねん

  boy

• 少数しょうすう

  small number, few, minority

• 少尉しょうい

  second lieutenant, sublieutenant, ensign

• 少々しょうしょう

  just a minute, small quantity

• 少佐しょうさ

  major, lieutenant commander, wing commander

• 少将しょうしょう

  major general, rear admiral, air commodore

• 少量しょうりょう

  small quantity, small amount

• 少額しょうがく

  small sum (of money), small amount

• 少女しょうじょ

  girl (usu. between 7 and 17), young lady

• 少しすこし

  a little, a bit, a small amount, a few, some, slightly, somewhat

• 希少きしょう

  scarce, rare

• 最少さいしょう

  fewest, least, smallest (number), lowest, minimum

• 多少たしょう

  a little, some, somewhat, slightly, to some degree, to some extent

• 幼少ようしょう

  infancy, childhood, tender age

• 減少げんしょう

  decrease, reduction, decline

• 少しもすこしも

  (not) at all, (not) a bit, (not) in the least, (not) in the slightest

• 少ないすくない

  few, little, small (amount), low, scarce, insufficient, seldom, rare

• 最年少さいねんしょう

  youngest

• 青少年せいしょうねん

  young people, youth, the younger generation

• 幼少期ようしょうき

  (early) childhood

• 少しずつすこしずつ

  little by little, bit by bit

• 少数意見しょうすういけん

  minority opinion

• 数少ないかずすくない

  few in number

• 少なくともすくなくとも

  at least

• 少なからずすくなからず

  considerably, not a little, in no small numbers

• ほんの少しほんのすこし

  just a little

• 少壮しょうそう

  youth

• 少者しょうしゃ

  young person

• 少恩しょうおん

  small favors, small favours

• 少糖しょうとう

  oligosaccharide

• 少陰しょういん

  the lesser yin (in yin-yang)

• 少陽しょうよう

  the lesser yang (in yin-yang)

• 少敵しょうてき

  weak opponent, weak enemy

• 少時しょうじ

  one's early days, little while

• 少雨しょうう

  small amount of rainfall, (a) light rainfall

• 少許しょうきょ

  a little, a few, a bit, a touch, a smidge

• 少欲しょうよく

  (being) slightly covetous, a little covetousness

• 少閑しょうかん

  short interval of leisure, short break or breather, lull

• 少輔しょう

  assistant vice-minister (ritsuryō system, early Meiji period)

• 少領しょうりょう

  small territory

• 少子しょうし

  small number of children (per family), bearing few children

• 少飛しょうひ

  male cadet (aged 14-19) in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (during WWII)

• 僅少きんしょう

  a little, a few, small, slight, trifling, insignificant, narrow (margin)

• 寡少かしょう

  exceedingly little, exceedingly few, scanty, paltry, puny

• 些少さしょう

  trifling, little, few, slight

• 短少たんしょう

  short and insufficient

• 年少ねんしょう

  young, juvenile

• 微少びしょう

  infinitesimal

• 老少ろうしょう

  young and old