孤立无援 (孤立無援)
gū lì wú yuán
Pinyin

Definition

孤立无援 (孤立無援)
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gū lì wú yuán
  1. isolated and without help

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

gū dān
  1. 1 lone
  2. 2 lonely
  3. 3 loneliness
gū dú
  1. 1 lonely
  2. 2 solitary
jiàn lì
  1. 1 to establish
  2. 2 to set up
  3. 3 to found
yuán zhù
  1. 1 to help
  2. 2 to support
  3. 3 to aid
  4. 4 aid
  5. 5 assistance
dú lì
  1. 1 independent
  2. 2 independence
  3. 3 to stand alone

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
三十而立
sān shí ér lì
  1. 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
势不两立
shì bù liǎng lì
  1. 1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences
  2. 2 incompatible standpoints
又想当婊子又想立牌坊
yòu xiǎng dāng biǎo zi yòu xiǎng lì pái fāng
  1. 1 lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation
  3. 3 to want to have one's cake and eat it too
围城打援
wéi chéng dǎ yuán
  1. 1 to besiege and strike the relief force (idiom); strategy of surrounding a unit to entice the enemy to reinforce, then striking the new troops