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寡

寡

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. widowed
  2. alone; friendless
  3. (literary) few

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

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]ʷˤraʔ/
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

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Japanese

Kanji

寡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. widow

Readings

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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