[しょう, shou] (n, n-pref) (1) smallness; small item; (2) (See 小の月) short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); (3) (abbr) (See 小学校) elementary school; (4) younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name); (5) (arch) unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m) #659
[すこし, sukoshi] (adv, n) (1) small quantity; little; few; something; (2) little while; (3) short distance; (P) #1990
[すくない, sukunai] (adj-i) few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom; (P) #2274
[へん, hen] (pref) (1) one (of a pair); (2) incomplete; imperfect; fragmentary; (3) few; little; (4) off-centre; remote; (5) (See 片が付く) side; problem; question; matters #4075
[しょうすう, shousuu] (n, adj-no) minority; few; (P) #4872
[じゃっかん(若干)(P);そこばく;そくばく;そこば(若干)(ok), jakkan ( jakkan )(P); sokobaku ; sokubaku ; sokoba ( jakkan )(ok)] (n, adj-no) (1) some; few; a number of; a little (bit); (n-adv) (2) somewhat; to a certain extent; (adj-no, n-adv, n) (3) (そこばく, そくばく, そこば only) (arch) many; a lot; (P) #5080
[しょう, shou] (pref) small; little; few #5731
[じゃく, jaku] (n, n-suf) (1) weakness; the weak; (n-suf) (2) (See 小・こ・2) little less than; fewer than; under; (P) #6325
[ひとこと(P);いちげん(一言);いちごん(一言), hitokoto (P); ichigen ( hitokoto ); ichigon ( hitokoto )] (n, vs) single word; a few words; brief comment; (P) #6963
[かずすくない, kazusukunai] (adj-i) few in number #8591
[きんじつ, kinjitsu] (n-adv, n-t) soon; in a few days; (P) #10581
[せんじつ, senjitsu] (n-adv, n-t) the other day; a few days ago; (P) #10760
[ひとことふたこという, hitokotofutakotoiu] (exp, v5u) to say a few words
[いちぎょうちしき, ichigyouchishiki] (n) one-line fact; one-line information; information (explanation) provided in a few scanty words
[いちに, ichini] (n) the first and second; a few; (P)
[いっぴつ;ひとふで, ippitsu ; hitofude] (n-adv, n-t) a few lines; stroke of pen
[ひとふでかく, hitofudekaku] (v5k) to drop a few lines
[なんかいか, nankaika] (n) a few times
[かしょう, kashou] (adj-na, n, adj-no) little; few; scanty
[かしょう, kashou] (adj-na, n) too few
[かんさん, kansan] (adj-na) (1) deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); very few people; (2) quiet; inactive; off-season; dull; hushed; (P)
[いくつか, ikutsuka] (adj-no) (uk) (a) few; some; several
[きんしょう, kinshou] (adj-no, adj-na) (See 僅か) (a) few; (a) little; trifling; insignificant; small (amount); scarce (stocks)
[きんじつちゅうに, kinjitsuchuuni] (exp) one of these days; in a few days
[これっぽっち, koreppocchi] (n) (uk) this little; this few; in the slightest
[これだけ, koredake] (exp) (uk) so many (few); so much (little)
[さしょう, sashou] (adj-na, n, adj-no) trifling; little; few; slight
[のこりすくない, nokorisukunai] (adj-i) scarce; few remaining
[かくも, kakumo] (adj-f) (uk) so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)
[しちじゅうこき, shichijuukoki] (exp) Men seldom live to be seventy (Du Fu (c.712-c.770)); Few people live to be seventy
[しゅうか, shuuka] (n) the many and the few
[しょうのつき, shounotsuki] (n) (See 大の月) short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days)
[こぶくろとこむすめ, kobukurotokomusume] (exp) (1) small bag and young woman; (2) like a small bag seems to be able to contain few items yet can be stuffed with many, a young woman seems inexpensive to bring up yet can end up costing a lot; (3) a young woman and a small bag are both fragile and great care must be taken with both of them
[すくなからぬ, sukunakaranu] (exp) not a little (few)
[すくなくない, sukunakunai] (exp) not few; not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot
[すくなすぎる, sukunasugiru] (v1) (See 多過ぎる) to be lacking in options; to be too few
[しょうきょ, shoukyo] (n) a little; a few; a bit; a touch; a smidge
[しょうすうせいえい, shousuuseiei] (n) elect (select) few
[しょうすうたたいけい, shousuutataikei] (n) few-body (physics)
[しょうとうれい, shoutourei] (n) curfew
[すうかい, suukai] (n) few (several) times
[すうじかん, suujikan] (n) a few hours; (P)
[すうじかんすれば, suujikansureba] (exp) in a few hours
[すうじゅうねん, suujuunen] (n-t) few decades; many decades; several decades
[すうじつ, suujitsu] (n) few days; (P)
[すうねんまえ, suunenmae] (adv, adj-no) a few years ago; some years back
[すうふん, suufun] (n) several minutes; a few minutes
[すうふんかん, suufunkan] (exp) a few minutes; for a few minutes; for a number of minutes; for a period of a few minutes; for several minutes
[すうふんご, suufungo] (n-adv, n-t) a few minutes later; after a few minutes
[せっく, sekku] (n) a few words