少壮

少壯

shàozhuàng

adjective

Meanings

1 young and strong
2 in the prime of life

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

少壮时多读点书，老了才不会后悔。

Shàozhuàng shí duō dú diǎn shū, lǎo le cái bú huì hòuhuǐ.

Read more while you are young and strong, and you will have no regrets when you are old.

HSK 7-9

那几位少壮军官主张立刻出兵。

Nà jǐ wèi shàozhuàng jūnguān zhǔzhāng lìkè chūbīng.

Those young officers pressed for sending in the troops at once.

Tips

mistakes

少 is shào 'young' here, as in 少年, not shǎo 'few'.

culture

Best known from the Han ballad line 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲, 'idle when young and strong, grieving in vain when old'. 少壮派 is the young, ambitious faction of a group.

Stroke Order

少 shǎo

壮 zhuàng