Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "寡" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "寡" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom)
to live as widow / to observe widowhood
multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers
(idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence / abstemious / ascetic
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)
an elderly person of no family
the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered / unequally matched / overwhelmed by weight of numbers
lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless / fig. people with no one left to rely on