| 寡 | [ guǎ ] few, scant, widowed |
| 寡不敵眾 | [ guǎ bù dí zhòng ] the few are no match for the many, heavily outnumbered, facing impossible odds (idiom) |
| 寡二少雙 | [ guǎ èr shaǒ shuāng ] peerless, second to none (idiom) |
| 寡人 | [ guǎ rén ] I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility) |
| 寡助 | [ guǎ zhù ] finding little support, neglected |
| 寡婦 | [ guǎ fu ] widow |
| 寡居 | [ guǎ jū ] to live as a widow |
| 寡情 | [ guǎ qíng ] heartless, unfeeling |
| 寡淡 | [ guǎ dàn ] insipid, bland, indifferent |
| 寡糖 | [ guǎ táng ] oligosaccharide |
| 寡言 | [ guǎ yán ] taciturn, reticent |
| 寡陋 | [ guǎ loù ] having little knowledge, not well-read |
| 寡頭 | [ guǎ toú ] oligarch |
| 寡頭壟斷 | [ guǎ toú lǒng duàn ] oligopoly |
| 寡頭政治 | [ guǎ toú zhèng zhì ] oligarchy |
| ⇒ 不患寡而患不均 | [ bù huàn guǎ ér huàn bù jūn ] do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects) |
| ⇒ 優柔寡斷 | [ yoū roú guǎ duàn ] indecisive, irresolute |
| ⇒ 刻薄寡恩 | [ kè bó guǎ ēn ] harsh and merciless (idiom) |
| ⇒ 多寡 | [ duō guǎ ] number, amount |
| ⇒ 失道寡助 | [ shī daò 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 |
| ⇒ 孤家寡人 | [ 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) |
| ⇒ 孤寡 | [ gū guǎ ] orphans and widows, to be lonely, loneliness |
| ⇒ 孤男寡女 | [ gū nán guǎ nǚ ] a single man and a single woman, bachelors, a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting) |
| ⇒ 孤陋寡聞 | [ gū loù guǎ wén ] ignorant and inexperienced, ill-informed and narrow-minded |
| ⇒ 守寡 | [ shoǔ guǎ ] to live as widow, to observe widowhood |
| ⇒ 守活寡 | [ shoǔ huó guǎ ] to stay at home while one's husband is away, grass widow |
| ⇒ 得道多助，失道寡助 | [ dé daò duō zhù shī daò guǎ zhù ] A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius) |
| ⇒ 敵眾我寡 | [ dí zhòng wǒ guǎ ] multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius), heavily outnumbered, beaten by the weight of numbers |
| ⇒ 曲高和寡 | [ qǔ gaō hè guǎ ] difficult songs find few singers (idiom), highbrow |
| ⇒ 木訥寡言 | [ mù nè guǎ yán ] honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom) |
| ⇒ 沉靜寡言 | [ chén jìng guǎ yán ] see 沉默寡言[chen2 mo4 gua3 yan2] |
| ⇒ 沉默寡言 | [ chén mò guǎ yán ] habitually silent (idiom), reticent, uncommunicative |
| ⇒ 淡泊寡味 | [ dàn bó guǎ weì ] insipid and tasteless (idiom) |
| ⇒ 清心寡慾 | [ qīng xīn guǎ yù ] (idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence, abstemious, ascetic |
| ⇒ 清湯寡水 | [ qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ ] meager fare, (fig.) insipid, colorless |
| ⇒ 眾寡懸殊 | [ zhòng guǎ xuán shū ] the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered, unequally matched, overwhelmed by weight of numbers |
| ⇒ 紅寡婦鳥 | [ hóng guǎ fu ] (ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix) |
| ⇒ 索然寡味 | [ suǒ rán guǎ weì ] dull and insipid |
| ⇒ 落落寡交 | [ luò luò guǎ ] aloof and as a result friendless (idiom) |
| ⇒ 落落寡合 | [ luò luò guǎ hé ] aloof, standoffish, unsociable |
| ⇒ 落落寡歡 | [ luò luò guǎ huān ] melancholy, unhappy |
| ⇒ 衆寡 | [ zhòng guǎ ] the many or the few |
| ⇒ 裒多益寡 | [ poú duō yì guǎ ] to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom) |
| ⇒ 鬱鬱寡歡 | [ yù yù guǎ huān ] depressed, cheerless |
| ⇒ 鰥寡孤獨 | [ guān guǎ gū dú ] lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless, fig. people with no one left to rely on |
