寡人

guǎrén
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)

CEDICT

  1. (imperial, humble, archaic) I; we; "lonesome one" (similar to the royal we; first person pronoun reserved for use by monarchs to refer to themselves when speaking to their subordinates)
  2. (noble, archaic) I (first-person pronoun used by the wife of a feudal prince)
  3. I (first-person pronoun used by the wife of a feudal prince)
  4. I; we; "lonesome one" (similar to the royal we; first person pronoun reserved for use by monarchs to refer to themselves when speaking to their subordinates)
  5. lonely person

Wiktionary

  1. 寡德的人。古代国君自称的谦词。
  2. 古代诸侯夫人的自称。
  3. 孤单无伴的人。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 寡 guǎ
  1. few
  2. scant
  3. widowed
2 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位

Containing this entry

孤家寡人 gūjiāguǎrén
  1. one who is cut off from others (idiom)
  2. one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
  3. (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)

Related entries

予 yú
  1. (archaic) I
  2. me
伲 nì
  1. (dialect) I
  2. my
  3. we
  4. our
俺 ǎn I (northern dialects)
俺不弹钢琴。

I do not play the piano.

Source: Tatoeba

卬 áng
  1. I (regional colloquial)
  2. me
  3. variant of 昂 áng
咱家 zájiā
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
  4. (often used in early vernacular literature)
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