The kanji 寡: meaning, readings and stroke order
寡
- Meaning
- few, widowed
- On reading
- カ ka
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 宀 roof
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- ít ỏi, goá bụa (quả)
- Japanese
- すくない。つれあいを なくした ひと。
- Korean
- 적다, 홀로 되다 (과)
- Chinese
- 少、守寡
Readings, words and example sentences
カ ka · on reading · less common
多寡
how many or how few, amount
数の 多寡は 問いません。
It does not matter how many there are.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.