Kanji Detail for 寡 - "few, widow"

寡

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning

寡 means "few, widow." Also associated with alone.
1. Few - Small in number.
2. Widow - A woman whose husband has died.
3. Alone - Solitary; without others.
Words using 寡
- 寡占かせん oligopoly; control of a market
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 humble reduce decrease weak scanty scarce meager rare solitary sparse lonely

父は寡黙な人です。
My father is a man of few words.
トムは寡欲な人だ。
Tom is a man of few wants.
かつての彼は寡黙な男だった。
He used to be a quiet man.
孤軍奮闘したけれど、衆寡敵せず、彼のビジネスプランは受け入れられなかったよ。
He put up a brave and lone struggle, but up against such heavy odds he couldn't get his business plan accepted.