"少" meaning in Japanese

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Second grade kyōiku kanji",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese jōyō kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese kyōiku kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese second grade kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "shōjo",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "少女",
              "しょうじょ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "少女"
        },
        {
          "roman": "shōnen",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "少年",
              "しょうねん"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "少年"
        },
        {
          "roman": "shōshō",
          "word": "少少"
        },
        {
          "roman": "shōshō",
          "word": "少々"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a little"
      ],
      "id": "en-少-ja-character-mr4PzjZb",
      "links": [
        [
          "a little",
          "a little"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "少"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "shōjo",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "少女",
          "しょうじょ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "少女"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shōnen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "少年",
          "しょうねん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "少年"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shōshō",
      "word": "少少"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shōshō",
      "word": "少々"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Second grade kyōiku kanji",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese jōyō kanji",
        "Japanese kanji",
        "Japanese kanji with goon reading しょう",
        "Japanese kanji with historical goon reading せう",
        "Japanese kanji with historical kan'on reading せう",
        "Japanese kanji with kan'on reading しょう",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading しばら・く",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading すく・ない",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading すこ・し",
        "Japanese kyōiku kanji",
        "Japanese second grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with 少",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a little"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "a little",
          "a little"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "少"
}