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

5 strokes
Radical:
divination
Parts:
fortune-telling, divining, forecasting, occupy, hold, have, get, take
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
694 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 占領 【センリョウ】 occupying, having (an area) all to oneself, military occupation, possession, capture, seizure
  • 占拠 【センキョ】 occupation, taking and maintaining exclusive control (of a location)
  • 寡占 【カセン】 oligopoly, control of a market
  • 買い手寡占 【カイテカセン】 oligopsony

Kun reading compounds

  • 占める 【しめる】 to occupy, to hold, to account for, to make up, to take up
  • 占う 【うらなう】 to tell someone's fortune, to divine (the future), to predict, to forecast

Readings

Japanese names:
うら、 しむ、 じめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhan1, zhan4
Korean:
jeom

Spanish

  • adivinar
  • pronosticar
  • ocupar
  • poseer
  • tomar

Portuguese

  • Ler a sorte
  • advinhar
  • previsão
  • ocupar-se
  • segurar
  • manter
  • obter
  • tomar

French

  • bonne aventure
  • divination
  • prédiction
  • occuper
  • tenir
  • posséder
  • avoir
  • prendre
1491 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
851 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
799 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
985 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
383 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
153 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1706 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1822 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1016 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
250 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2496 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1263 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1729 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
48 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2780 Morohashi
2003 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
624 New Nelson (John Haig)
48 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
49 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
378 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
1042 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1277 2001 Kanji
2m3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-3 SKIP code
2160.0 Four corner code
1-32-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5360 Unicode hex code