寡妇

guǎ fu · HSK 7

widow

👩‍🦳 寡 = few/alone + 妇 = woman → a woman left alone

寡 means few, scarce, or solitary (also used by emperors to mean I, the lonely one). 妇 means married woman. Together: a married woman now alone — a widow.

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