Chinese symbol for “scant”
寡
guǎ
few; scant; widowed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scant is 寡 (guǎ), defined as: few; scant; widowed.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “scant”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 寡.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寡妇 (寡婦) | guǎ fu | widow |
| 寡头 (寡頭) | guǎ tóu | oligarch |
| 多寡 | duō guǎ | number; amount |
| 寡人 | guǎ rén | I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility) |
| 优柔寡断 (優柔寡斷) | yōu róu guǎ duàn | indecisive; irresolute |
| 沉默寡言 | chén mò guǎ yán | habitually silent (idiom); reticent |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scant”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.