少子化

declining birthrate (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 少子化 "shoushika")

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

young

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

(noun suffix)

variant of 花[hua1]

to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]