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多少

duō shao

HSK 1 · word 94 of 3,000

Meaning

• how much?; how many?
• (phone number, student ID etc) what number?

Example sentence

Characters in 多少

• 多 duō many; much; more; a lot of
• 少 shǎo few

多 many plus 少 few. Two opposites bound together become a question about quantity — the same trick as 大小 for size and 长短 for length.

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