寡 - widow, minority, few

widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman

oligopoly; control of a market

untalkative; quiet; taciturn; reticent; uncommunicative

degree (of something); greatness or smallness (of something); quantity; number; amount; size

with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin

the many and the few

shallow learning and limited information; being ignorant and badly informed

oligopsony

low fecundity

unprolific (writer, artist, etc.)

having little knowledge (of); being ill-informed

widow and widower; lonely people