Character | Composition | Variants | Reading | Meaning | Hanyu | Kangxi | Cihai |
寡 | 宀+11 | 關 | guǎ ㄍㄨㄚˇ | Few. / Lack, reduce. / A widow; be widowed. / A widower or unmarried man. / Modest way of referring to oneself used by rulers. | v2,p0947#07 | p.290#19 | p.427r2c02 |
少 | 小+1 | | shǎo shào ㄕㄠˇ ㄕㄠˋ | few, less, inadequate | v1,p0561#02 | p.296#20 | p.442r4c01 |
也 | 乙+2 | 𠃟 匜 | yě ㄧㄝˇ | Modal particle used at the end of a sentence, expressing assertion and affirmation. / Modal particle used at the end of a question for emphasis. / Modal particle used at the end of a cause-effect sentence to express explanation. / Modal particle used in the middle of a sentence to express a pause. | v1,p0050#05 | p.84#04 | p.55r1c01 |
从 | 人+2 | 從 | cóng zòng zōng cōng ㄘㄨㄥˊ ㄗㄨㄥˋ ㄗㄨㄥ ㄘㄨㄥ | from, by, since, whence, through | v1,p0105#03 | p.92#03 | p.85r1c03 |
宀 | 宀+0 | | mián ㄇㄧㄢˊ | roof; KangXi radical 40 | v2,p0909#13 | p.281#11 | p.404r6c04 |
頒 | 頁+4 | 朌 颁 | bān fén ㄅㄢ ㄈㄣˊ | confer, bestow; publish, promulgate | v7,p4362#01 | p.1401#08 | p.1476r4c02 |
分 | 刀+2 | 份 | fēn ㄈㄣ | Separate, split. / Distribute, divide among. / Distinguish, tell apart. / Difference. / Clear, evident. / Share. / Half. / Gist, general point. / Equinox (in the Chinese unisolar calendar). / Measure word: unit of length equivalent to a tenth of one cun. / Measure word: unit of area equivalent to a tenth of one mu. / Measure word: unit of weight equivalent to a tenth of one qian. | v1,p0321#03 | p.136#04 | p.174r1c04 |
| | | fèn ㄈㄣˋ | Rank, position occupied. / Work, office. / Guess, speculate. / Happy, content. | | | |
賦 | 貝+8 | 赋 | fù ㄈㄨˋ | tax; give; endow; army; diffuse | v6,p3644#04 | p.1210#03 | p.1277r3c04 |
故 | 攴+5 | | gù ㄍㄨˋ | Cause. / State of affairs. / Event, incident. / Plot. / Old. / Past, original. / Death. / On purpose. / Originally. / Hence, thus. | v2,p1453#05 | p.469#25 | p.601r5c01 |
為 | 火+5 | 爲 为 | wéi ㄨㄟˊ | Create, make. / Build, construct. / Do. / Plant, grow. / Govern. / Research, study. / Serve as. / Change into, become. / As, in the role of. / Count as, be considered as. / Called, named. / Expresses judgement: is. / Make, cause (to). / Have. / Take part in. / Write, author. / Connective: if. / Particle used in the middle of a sentence to move forward the object. / Modal particle used at the end of a sentence to express a rhetorical question. | v3,p2198#11 | p.669#10 | p.844r4c03 |
| | | wèi ㄨㄟˋ | Help, assist. / Preposition: for, on behalf of. / Preposition: by (passive). / Preposition: because of, due to. / Preposition: with, together with. / Connective: because. / Say. / False, fake. | | | |