寡

Glyph origin
In the from the, it was originally an  — only one person in the house; alone.

In the bronze script from the, two decorative strokes were added around. The seal script found in  adds two additional strokes, making the component under appear as  and, leading Shuowen to erroneously interpret the character as an.

Etymology
Related to,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) few; scant
 * 2) widowed
 * 3) widow
 * 4) alone; friendless
 * 5) tasteless
 * 6)  some
 * 7)  one
 * 1)  some
 * 2)  one
 * 1)  one

Kanji
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 * 1) few, scant
 * 2) to decrease
 * 3) lonely
 * 4) widow, widower
 * 5) lowly humble; of low virtue

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) minority