漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
寡: widow, minority
Also: few
JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
宀 carries the meaning · 自 and 分 are drawn in
14 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 寡占かせんoligopoly; control of a market
- 寡婦かふwidow; divorced woman not remarried
- 寡黙かもくuntalkative; quiet; taciturn
- 寡作かさくunprolific (writer, artist, etc.)
- 多寡たかdegree (of something)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Under one roof! Imagine the safety and warmth of a sturdy house at the end of a long day.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
分
Also built on part (分)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side寡 widow · 宀 + 自
vs頒 distribute · 頁In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · guǎ
Same form: 寡 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 寡 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 寡 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guǎ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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