寡

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

1. widowed
2. alone; friendless
3. (literary) few

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		寡

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǎ (gua³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaa²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚˇ
    • Wade-Giles: kua³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goa
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaa²
    • Yale: gwá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa²
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɑː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠua^X/▼

Rime
Character	寡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古瓦切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuaX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚaX/
Shao Rongfen	/kuaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨX/
Li Rong	/kuaX/
Wang Li	/kwaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwaX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǎ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[C.k]ʷˤraʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷraːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guǎ
Middle Chinese	‹ kwæX ›
Old Chinese	/*[C.k]ʷˤraʔ/
English	few
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	寡
Reading #	1/1
No.	4400
Phonetic component	寡
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	寡
Old Chinese	/*kʷraːʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

寡

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

寡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: やもめ (yamome), すくない (sukunai)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

寡 (quả, goá)

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