缺少

缺少 quēshǎo in a sentence

Lack (shortage)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

缺少 (quēshǎo) means Lack (shortage). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

我们还 缺少 一个人。

Wǒmen hái quēshǎo yí ge rén.

We are still one person short.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 缺少

这里 缺少 新鲜的水果。

Zhèlǐ quēshǎo xīnxiān de shuǐguǒ.

There is a shortage of fresh fruit here.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 缺少

Questions about 缺少

How is 缺少 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 缺少 (quēshǎo, "Lack (shortage)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 缺少 an HSK word?

Yes — 缺少 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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The dictionary page for 缺少 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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