稀 少

xīshǎo

adjectiveHSK 7-9

“Sparse” in Chinese is 稀少 (xīshǎo).

Meaning

sparse
rare

Example

树木很稀少。

The trees were very scarce.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

xīHSK 7-912 strokessparse; scattered shǎoHSK 14 strokesfew

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