寥寥无几 (liáo liáo wú jǐ)

Character breakdown

• 寥 (liáo) · 14 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 翏 represents the sound.

• 寥 (liáo) · 14 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 翏 represents the sound.

• 无 (mó) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a person dancing, with ox tails or bird feathers hanging from his arms, to pray for rain. Original form of 舞 (dance). The current form is a phonetic loan. The simplified character 无 was…

• 几 (jī) · 2 strokes

  Pictograph of a small table. In simplified Chinese 几 is also used to mean "how much", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 幾.

Usage

来听讲座的人寥寥无几。

just a very few (idiom); tiny number; not many at all; You count them on your fingers.

lái tīng jiǎng zuò de rén liáo liáo wú jǐ 。