减少 (jiǎn shǎo)

Character breakdown

• 减 (jiǎn) · 11 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 咸 represents the sound. Simplified form of 減.

• 少 (shǎo) · 4 strokes

  Depicts four dots, representing the meaning "few". Originally the same character as 小. The small dots possibly represent grains of sand (沙).