寡

寡 U+5BE1, 寡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BE1
← 寠
[U+5BE0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寢 →
[U+5BE2]

Translingual

Han character

寡 (radical 40, 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十一金竹 (JMCH), four-corner 30227, composition ⿳宀頁刀)

Derived characters
  • 𠏶, 𭄖

References
  • KangXi: page 290, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7286
  • Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 947, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5BE1

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 寡
variant forms 𠆣

Glyph origin

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 寡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古瓦切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠuaX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaɨX/
Li
Rong		 /kuaX/
Wang
Li		 /kwaX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwaX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guǎ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guǎ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwæX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[C.k]ʷˁraʔ/
English few

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 寡
Reading # 1/1
No. 4400
Phonetic
component		 寡
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 寡
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷraːʔ/

Definitions

寡

  1. widow
  2. alone; friendless
  3. (literary) few; minority

Compounds
Derived terms from 寡

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji
寡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Noun
Kanji in this term
寡
か
Grade: S
on’yomi

寡 (hiragana か, rōmaji ka)

  1. minority
    寡 (か)を以 (も)って衆 (しゅう)を制 (せい)する
    ka o motte shū o seisuru
    Majority can be conquered by minority.
Antonyms

Etymology 2

Noun
Kanji in this term
寡
やもめ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

寡 (hiragana やもめ, rōmaji yamome)

  1. widow
Derived terms
  • 男寡 (おとこやもめ) (otokoyamome, “widower”)

Korean

Hanja

寡 • (gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune–Reischauer kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寡 (quả, goá)

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