守活寡
shǒu huó guǎ
Pinyin
Definition
守活寡
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- to stay at home while one's husband is away
- grass widow
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to live
- 2 alive
- 3 living
- 4 work
- 5 workmanship
- 1 life
- 2 activity
- 3 to live
- 4 livelihood
- 1 conservative
- 2 to guard
- 3 to keep
- 1 to hold fast to
- 2 to stick to
Idioms (20)
不患寡而患不均
- 1 do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
不知死活
- 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
你死我活
- 1 lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
- 2 two parties cannot coexist
刻薄寡恩
- 1 harsh and merciless (idiom)
因循守旧
- 1 (idiom) to continue in the same old rut
- 2 diehard conservative attitudes