不少

bùshǎo

adjective HSK 2 #1,426

Meanings

1 quite a few
2 many
3 a lot

Characters

Examples

来了不少人。

Lái le bùshǎo rén.

Quite a few people came.

他去过不少国家。

Tā qù guò bùshǎo guójiā.

He's been to quite a few countries.

学中文的外国人不少。

Xué Zhōngwén de wàiguó rén bùshǎo.

There are quite a few foreigners studying Chinese.

Tips

usage

不少 is a classic Chinese understatement — 'not few' actually means 'many'. It sounds modest.

Stroke Order

不 bù

少 shǎo