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Kanji Detail for 寡 - "few, widow, alone"
寡
- Meaning
寡 means "few, widow, alone."
Few - Small in number.
Widow - A woman whose husband has died.
Alone - Solitary; without others.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
widow; minority; few
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
widowed; alone, friendless
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
few; scant; widowed
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
widowed; friendless, alone
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Few. Opposite of many. | A woman without a husband at fifty is called 寡. Now, any woman who has lost her husband is called 寡. | A humble term. Anciently, feudal lords called themselves 寡人. People referred to their own ruler to foreigners as 寡君. Both humbly claiming lack of virtue.
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