孤身只影 (孤身隻影)
gū shēn zhī yǐng
Pinyin
Definition
孤身只影 (孤身隻影)
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- lit. a lonely body with only a shadow for company
- to be all alone (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一意孤行
- 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
- 2 willful
- 3 one's own way
- 4 dogmatic
一日为师,终身为父
- 1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)
一身是胆
- 1 devoid of fear (idiom)
- 2 intrepid
人在江湖,身不由己
- 1 you can't always do as you like
- 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine