Kanji Detail for 寡 - "few, widow, alone"

寡

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
寡 means "few, widow, alone."
1. Few - Small in number.
2. Widow - A woman whose husband has died.
3. 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.
Onyomi

ka(カ)
Kunyomi
none
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

宀 (ukammuri)
Related Keywords
few widow alone solitary scarce rare limited meager sparse single lone sole minority humble modest silent taciturn independent self-reliant