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Hanzi Character Search: 寡

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寡
widowed; alone, friendless
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 11 Total Strokes 14
Mandarin reading guǎ Cantonese reading gwaa2
Japanese on reading ka Japanese kun reading yamome sukunai
Korean reading kwa Vietnamese reading quả
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ guǎ zhòng ]    the few are no match for the many, heavily outnumbered, facing impossible odds (idiom)
   [ guǎ èr shaǒ shuāng ]    peerless, second to none (idiom)
   [ guǎ fu ]    widow
   [ guǎ toú ]    oligarch
   [ guǎ toú lǒng duàn ]    oligopoly
   [ guǎ toú zhèng zhì ]    oligarchy
⇒    [ yoū roú guǎ duàn ]    indecisive, irresolute
⇒    [ loù guǎ wén ]    ignorant and inexperienced, ill-informed and narrow-minded
⇒    [ zhòng guǎ ]    multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius), heavily outnumbered, beaten by the weight of numbers
⇒    [ guǎ yán ]    honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
⇒    [ chén jìng guǎ yán ]    see 沉默寡言[chen2 mo4 gua3 yan2]
⇒    [ qīng xīn guǎ ]    (idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence, abstemious, ascetic
⇒    [ qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ ]    meager fare, (fig.) insipid, colorless
⇒    [ zhòng guǎ xuán shū ]    the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered, unequally matched, overwhelmed by weight of numbers
⇒    [ hóng guǎ fu ]    (ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
⇒    [ luò luò guǎ huān ]    melancholy, unhappy
⇒    [ zhòng guǎ ]    the many or the few
⇒    [ guǎ huān ]    depressed, cheerless
⇒    [ guān guǎ ]    lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless, fig. people with no one left to rely on

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