Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
roof
Parts:
widow, minority, few
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2035 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 寡 【カ】 minority, small numbers, unmarried person, widow, widower
  • 寡婦 【カフ】 widow, divorced woman not remarried, unmarried woman
  • 多寡 【タカ】 degree (of something), greatness or smallness (of something), quantity, number, amount, size
  • 鰥寡 【カンカ】 widow and widower, lonely people

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gua3
Korean:
gwa

Spanish

  • poco
  • solo
  • viudo

Portuguese

  • viúva
  • minoria
  • poucos

French

  • très peu
  • minorité
  • veuve
1053 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1935 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1337 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1855 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1216 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1851 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2007 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1660 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
494 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2957 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1518 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2059 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
791 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7286 Morohashi
2344 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1363 New Nelson (John Haig)
617 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
664 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1699 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
745 2001 Kanji
3m11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-11 SKIP code
3022.7 Four corner code
1-18-41 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5be1 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
small, insignificant
Parts:
few, little
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
287 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 少 【ショウ】 small, little, few
  • 少輔 【ショウ】 assistant vice-minister (ritsuryō system, early Meiji period)
  • 最少 【サイショウ】 fewest, least, smallest (number), lowest, minimum, youngest
  • 過少 【カショウ】 too few, too little, insufficient

Kun reading compounds

  • 少ない 【すくない】 few, little, small (amount), low, scarce, insufficient, seldom, rare
  • 少し 【すこし】 a little, a bit, a small amount, a few, some, slightly, somewhat, a little while, a short time, a moment, a minute, a little way, a short distance
  • 少しも 【すこしも】 (not) at all, (not) a bit, (not) in the least, (not) in the slightest

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shao3, shao4
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • poco
  • pequeño
  • un poco
  • apenas

Portuguese

  • poucos
  • pequenos

French

  • un petit peu
  • un peu
93 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
160 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
143 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
231 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
166 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
129 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
47 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
88 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
144 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
144 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
105 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
512 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4278 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2163 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2915 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
107 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7475 Morohashi
3467 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1390 New Nelson (John Haig)
106 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
111 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
153 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
95 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1160 2001 Kanji
3n1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
1-1-3 SKIP code
9020.0 Four corner code
1-30-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c11 Unicode hex code