寡
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
寡 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十一金竹 (JMCH), four-corner 30227, composition ⿳宀頁刀)
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 290, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7286
- Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 947, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5BE1
ChineseEdit
| simp. and trad. |
寡 | |
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| 2nd round simp. | 𠆣 | |
| alternative forms | 𧵿 𡩼 𠆣 | |
Glyph originEdit
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| Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script |
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In the bronze script from the Western Zhou period, it was originally an ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 頁 (“head”) — only one person in the house; alone.
In the bronze script from the Warring States period, two decorative strokes were added around 頁. The seal script found in Shuowen adds two additional strokes, making the component under 宀 appear as 分 and 頁, leading Shuowen to erroneously interpret the character as an ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 頒 (“to distribute”).
EtymologyEdit
Related to 鰥 (OC *kruːn, *kruːns, “widower”), 孤 (OC *kʷaː, “orphan; alone”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan དགོན་པ (dgon pa, “solitary place; desert; wilderness”), Tibetan སྒོས (sgos, “private; individual”).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
寡
- few; scant
- widowed
- widow
- alone; friendless
- tasteless
- (Hokkien) some
- 我去菜市仔買寡青菜。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
- Góa khì chhài-chhī-á bé kóa chheⁿ-chhài. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- I'm going to the market to buy some vegetables.
我去菜市仔买寡青菜。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
- (Min Zhong) one
SynonymsEdit
| Variety | Location | Words |
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| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 些 | |
| Mandarin | Taiwan | 些 |
| Singapore | 些 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 啲 |
| Hong Kong | 啲 | |
| Taishan | 尼 | |
| Singapore (Guangfu) | 啲 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 兜 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 兜 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 兜 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 兜 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 兜 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 兜 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 兜 | |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 寡 |
| Zhangzhou | 寡 | |
| Tainan | 寡 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 寡 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 寡 | |
| Shantou | 撮 | |
| Jieyang | 撮 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 撮 | |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 厘兒 |
CompoundsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “Entry #10471”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
ReadingsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 1Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 寡 |
| か Grade: S |
| kan’on |
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
AntonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 寡 |
| やもめ Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
寡: Hán Nôm readings: quả, góa/goá
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