Chinese symbol for “teenagers”

少男少女

shào nán shào nǚ

boys and girls; teenagers

The closest CC-CEDICT match for teenagers is 少男少女 (shào nán shào nǚ), defined as: boys and girls; teenagers.

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Characters and stroke order

少 shào

few, little; less; inadequate

radical 42 ⼩ · 4 strokes

男 nán

man, boy; male; baron; surname

radical 102 ⽥ · 7 strokes

少

少 shào

few, little; less; inadequate

radical 42 ⼩ · 4 strokes

女 nǚ

woman, girl; female

radical 38 ⼥ · 3 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 少男少女.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
多少	duō shǎo	number; amount; somewhat
减少 (減少)	jiǎn shǎo	to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
至少	zhì shǎo	at least; (to say the) least
不少	bù shǎo	many; quite a few; a good number of
少数 (少數)	shǎo shù	small number; few
男人	nán rén	a man; a male
男子	nán zǐ	a man; a male
男性	nán xìng	the male sex; a male
女人	nǚ rén	woman

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.