| 寡不敌众 | [ guǎ bù dí zhòng ] the few are no match for the many, heavily outnumbered, facing impossible odds (idiom) |
| 寡二少双 | [ guǎ èr shaǒ shuāng ] peerless, second to none (idiom) |
| 寡妇 | [ guǎ fu ] widow |
| 寡头 | [ guǎ toú ] oligarch |
| 寡头垄断 | [ guǎ toú lǒng duàn ] oligopoly |
| 寡头政治 | [ guǎ toú zhèng zhì ] oligarchy |
| ⇒ 优柔寡断 | [ yoū roú guǎ duàn ] indecisive, irresolute |
| ⇒ 孤陋寡闻 | [ gū loù guǎ wén ] ignorant and inexperienced, ill-informed and narrow-minded |
| ⇒ 敌众我寡 | [ dí zhòng wǒ guǎ ] multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius), heavily outnumbered, beaten by the weight of numbers |
| ⇒ 木讷寡言 | [ mù nè guǎ yán ] honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom) |
| ⇒ 沉静寡言 | [ chén jìng guǎ yán ] see 沉默寡言[chen2 mo4 gua3 yan2] |
| ⇒ 清心寡欲 | [ qīng xīn guǎ yù ] (idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence, abstemious, ascetic |
| ⇒ 清汤寡水 | [ qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ ] meager fare, (fig.) insipid, colorless |
| ⇒ 众寡悬殊 | [ zhòng guǎ xuán shū ] the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered, unequally matched, overwhelmed by weight of numbers |
| ⇒ 红寡妇鸟 | [ hóng guǎ fu ] (ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix) |
| ⇒ 落落寡欢 | [ luò luò guǎ huān ] melancholy, unhappy |
| ⇒ 众寡 | [ zhòng guǎ ] the many or the few |
| ⇒ 郁郁寡欢 | [ yù yù guǎ huān ] depressed, cheerless |
| ⇒ 鳏寡孤独 | [ guān guǎ gū dú ] lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless, fig. people with no one left to rely on |
