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)

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)

few; scant; widowed

the many or the few

number; amount

orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness

to live as widow; to observe widowhood

(esp. of an unjust cause) to receive little support

oligarch

to live as a widow

heartless; unfeeling

insipid; bland; indifferent

oligosaccharide

taciturn; reticent

having little knowledge; not well-read

to stay at home while one's husband is away; grass widow

(idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength

indecisive; irresolute

harsh and merciless (idiom)

an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius); cf 得道多助[de2 dao4 duo1 zhu4] a just cause attracts much support

a single man and a single woman; bachelors; a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)

ignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded

peerless; second to none (idiom)

oligopoly

oligarchy

multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered; beaten by the weight of numbers

difficult songs find few singers (idiom); highbrow

honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)

see 沉默寡言[chen2 mo4 gua3 yan2]

(idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence; abstemious; ascetic

meager fare; (fig.) insipid; colorless

dull and insipid

(ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)

aloof and as a result friendless (idiom)

aloof; standoffish; unsociable

melancholy; unhappy

to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)

(idiom) depressed; cheerless

(lit.) widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom); (fig.) people with no one left to rely on

do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)

A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)