寡

Translingual

Han character

寡 (radical 40 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十一金竹 (JMCH), four-corner 3022₇)

1. widowed
2. alone; friendless
3. [literary] few

References

• KangXi: page 290, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7286
• Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 947, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5BE1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

寡 (Yale gwa2)

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Japanese

Kanji

寡 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: やもめ (yamome), すくない (sukunai)

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Korean

Hanja

寡 (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

寡 (pinyin guǎ (gua3), níng (ning2), nìng (ning4), Wade-Giles kua³, ning², ning⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寡 (quả, goá)

Last modified on 10 February 2013, at 23:53