寡
寡 — gwa
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 적을 과
- Romanization
- gwa
- English
- widowed; alone, friendless
- Mandarin
- guǎ
- Japanese on'yomi
- カ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- すくない やもめ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,035 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 宀 (40, 11 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5BE1
How 寡 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 寡 as a ideographic compound involving 宀, 頁.
Korean example words with 寡
- 과소寡少 Korean gloss: 아주 적음
- 과병寡兵 Korean gloss: 매우 적은 병력
- 다과多寡 Korean gloss: 수량의 많고 적음
- 과두寡頭 Korean gloss: 적은 수의 우두머리
- 과문寡聞 Korean gloss: 보고 들은 것이 적음
- 과우寡雨 Korean gloss: 잠시 동안 조금 내리는 비
- 과수寡守 Korean gloss: 남편을 잃고 혼자 사는 여자
- 고과孤寡 Korean gloss: 고아와 과부를 아울러 이르는 말
- 과조寡照 Korean gloss: 농작물에 쪼이는 햇볕의 양이 적음
- 과점寡占 Korean gloss: 몇몇 기업이 어떤 상품 시장의 대부분을 지배하는 상태
- 과묵하다寡默 Korean gloss: 말이 적고 침착하다
- 과인寡人 Korean gloss: 덕이 적은 사람이라는 뜻으로, 임금이 자기를 낮추어 이르던 일인칭 대명사
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 寡
- 寡占かせん oligopoly; control of a market
- 寡黙かもく untalkative; quiet; taciturn
- 寡婦かふ widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman
- 多寡たか degree (of something); greatness or smallness (of something); quantity
- 寡作かさく unprolific (writer, artist, etc.)
- 寡か minority; small numbers; unmarried person
- 寡言かげん reticence; taciturnity
- 寡少かしょう exceedingly little; exceedingly few; scanty
- 寡勢かぜい small military force; numerically inferior force
- 寡男やもお widower
- 寡聞かぶん having little knowledge (of); being ill-informed
- 寡兵かへい small army force
Other hanja read “과”
Other hanja with radical 宀
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences