寡 guǎ
: few; scant
: widowed; alone; friendless
寡 | やもめ yamome
noun
: widow; divorced woman not remarried
寡い | すくない sukunai
adjective
: few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
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寡婦[妇] gua3fu: widow [寡婦 | かふ kafu OR やもめ yamome]
寡言 gua3yan2: taciturn; reticent [かげん kagen: reticence; taciturnity]
寡頭[头] gua3tou2: oligarch
[寡頭制 | かとうせい katousei OR 寡頭政治 | かとうせいじ katou seiji: oligarchy]
寡人 gua3ren2: I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
[かじん kajin: my humble self]
寡助 gua3zhu4: finding little support; neglected
寡居 gua3ju1: to live as a widow [かきょ kakyo: widowhood]
多寡 duo1gua3: quantity; number; amount [たか taka]
孤寡 gu1gua3: orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness
守寡 shou3gua3: to live as widow; to observe widowhood
守活寡 shou3 huo2 gua3: to stay at home while one’s husband is away; grass widow
眾[众]寡 zhong4gua3: the many or the few
寡頭[头] gua3tou2: oligarch
[寡頭制 | かとうせい katousei OR 寡頭政治 | かとうせいじ katou seiji: oligarchy]
寡人 gua3ren2: I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
[かじん kajin: my humble self]
寡助 gua3zhu4: finding little support; neglected
寡居 gua3ju1: to live as a widow [かきょ kakyo: widowhood]
多寡 duo1gua3: quantity; number; amount [たか taka]
孤寡 gu1gua3: orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness
守寡 shou3gua3: to live as widow; to observe widowhood
守活寡 shou3 huo2 gua3: to stay at home while one’s husband is away; grass widow
眾[众]寡 zhong4gua3: the many or the few
Japanese expression
*鰥寡孤独 | かんかこどく kanka kodoku
: with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin
Chinese idiom
寡不敵眾 [寡不敌众] gua3 bu4 di2 zhong4
: the few are no match for the many; heavily outnumbered; facing impossible odds
孤家寡人 gu1 jia1 gua3 ren2
: one who is cut off from others; one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
孤陋寡聞 [孤陋寡闻] gu1 lou4 gua3 wen2
: ignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded
刻薄寡恩 ke4 bo2 gua3 en1
: harsh and merciless
沉默寡言 chen2 mo4 gua3 yan2
: habitually silent; reticent; uncommunicative
淡泊寡味 dan4 bo2 gua3 wei4
: insipid and tasteless
裒多益寡 pou2 duo1 yi4 gua3
: to take from the rich and give to the poor
*鰥寡孤獨 [鳏寡孤独] guan1 gua3 gu1 du2
: lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless; fig. people with no one left to rely on
不患寡而患不均 bu4 huan4 gua3 er2 huan4 bu4 jun1
: do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (from Analects)
得道多助，失道寡助 de2 dao4 duo1 zhu4 , shi1 dao4 gua3 zhu4
: A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (from Mencius)
会意 Associative Compound.
Living in house 宀 (mian2: roof radical 40) with
person 頁 (ye4: page; leaf radical 181)
removed 刀 (dao1: knife)
Semantic:
關[关] guan1: mountain pass; to close
Examples:
這家劇院光顧者寡只好關閉。
zhe4 jia1 ju4yuan4 guang1gu4 zhe3 gua3 zhi3hao3 guan4bi4.
The theater had to close for lack of support.
Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary
