Illustration: On the tatami floor of a family apartment, a preschool child builds a crooked tower of wooden blocks beside a much smaller toddler. The older child wears an oversized paper crown and solemnly offers the toddler a block as though appointing an assistant.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

幼よう少しょう

youshou

childhood, early years

Example sentences

  1. 幼少ようしょう期きはここで過すごしました。

    Here is where I spent my childhood.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしは、幼少ようしょう時代じだい、玩具おもちゃという物ものを持もった覚おぼえがない。

    I don’t remember having had any toys when I was young.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. そのため幼少ようしょう期きは非常ひじょうに苦労くろうした。

    As a result, he endured great hardship during his young days.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 幼少

  • 幼infancy; childhoodOnヨウKunおさない
  • 少few; littleOnショウKunすくない・すこし

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