寂寥
jì liáo
Pinyin
Definition
寂寥
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- (literary) quiet and desolate
- lonely
- vast and empty
Character Decomposition
Idioms (4)
寥寥可数
- 1 just a very few (idiom); tiny number
- 2 just a handful
- 3 not many at all
- 4 You count them on your fingers.
寥寥无几
- 1 just a very few (idiom); tiny number
- 2 not many at all
- 3 You count them on your fingers.
寥若晨星
- 1 rare as morning stars (idiom)
- 2 few and far between
- 3 sparse
万籁俱寂
- 1 not a sound to be heard (idiom)
Sample Sentences
自古逢秋悲寂寥,
那撒向江水的一樽酒,便连接了这虚幻与真实,仿佛穿越了时空,把诗人孤单却激越的情怀投入了那冠盖云集的古三国战场上,也让他寂寥的心得到了些许慰藉。
The cup of alcohol sprinkled on the river water, links the illusory with the real, as if passing through time and space, infusing the poet's lonely yet intense mood into the overcast skies of the battleground of the Three Kingdoms, giving some consolation to his lonely heart.
又寂寥的雨巷,
and lonesome rainy alley,
她彷徨在这寂寥的雨巷,
she wanders in this solitary and lonely rainy alley,