"寡" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Strokes 3
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Strokes 14
Structure
Decomp. 宀丆且八刀
宀丆且分
Prononciation
Mandarin guǎ
Entry Methods
Pinyin gua3
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Cangjie
JMCH
十一金竹
Sijiao 3022.7
Wubi PDEV
CNS 11643 1-6850
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+5BE1
GB2312 B9D1
BIG5 B9E8
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 guǎ few / scant / widowed
Results beginning with 寡
 guǎ fu widow
 guǎ rén I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
 guǎ tóu oligarch
 guǎ yán taciturn / reticent
 guǎ qíng heartless / unfeeling
 guǎ jū to live as a widow
 guǎ dàn insipid / bland / indifferent
 guǎ lòu having little knowledge / not well-read
 guǎ táng oligosaccharide
 guǎ zhù (esp. of an unjust cause) to receive little support
 guǎ bù dí zhòng the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom)
 guǎ èr shǎo shuāng peerless / second to none (idiom)
 guǎ tóu zhèng zhì oligarchy
 guǎ fù jìng huà widow cleansing / widow-cleansing
 guǎ tóu lǒng duàn oligopoly
  Widows Rights International
Approximate Results for 寡
 duō guǎ number / amount
 gū guǎ orphans and widows / to be lonely / loneliness
 shǒu guǎ to live as widow / to observe widowhood
 zhòng guǎ the many or the few
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 shǒu huó guǎ to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
 chén mò guǎ yán habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
 gū jiā guǎ rén one who is cut off from others (idiom) / one who has chosen to follow a solitary path / (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
 qǔ gāo hè guǎ difficult songs find few singers (idiom) / highbrow
 dí zhòng wǒ guǎ multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers
 guān guǎ gū dú lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless / fig. people with no one left to rely on
 zhòng guǎ xuán shū the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / unequally matched / overwhelmed by weight of numbers
 chén jìng guǎ yán see 沉默寡言[chen2 mo4 gua3 yan2]
 gū lòu guǎ wén ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded
 mù nè guǎ yán honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
 póu duō yì guǎ to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)
 qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ meager fare / (fig.) insipid / colorless
 shī dào guǎ zhù an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助[de2 dao4 duo1 zhu4] a just cause attracts much support
 yōu róu guǎ duàn indecisive / irresolute
 yù yù guǎ huān depressed / cheerless
  black widow mine
 dàn bó guǎ wèi insipid and tasteless (idiom)
 gū nán guǎ nu:3 a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
 Hóng Guǎ fu niǎo (ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
 kè bó guǎ ēn harsh and merciless (idiom)
 luò luò guǎ hé aloof / standoffish / unsociable
 luò luò guǎ huān melancholy / unhappy
 luò luò guǎ jiāo aloof and as a result friendless (idiom)
 qīng xīn guǎ yù (idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence / abstemious / ascetic
 suǒ rán guǎ wèi dull and insipid
  International Widows Day
 bù huàn guǎ ér huàn bù jūn do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
 dé dào duō zhù , shī dào guǎ zhù A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)
  National Coordinating Committee of Guatemalan Widows
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