守活寡
shǒu huó guǎ
Pinyin

Definition

守活寡
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shǒu huó guǎ
  1. to stay at home while one's husband is away
  2. grass widow

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

huó
  1. 1 to live
  2. 2 alive
  3. 3 living
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 workmanship
huó dòng
  1. 1 to exercise
  2. 2 to move about
  3. 3 to operate
  4. 4 to use connections (personal influence)
  5. 5 loose
  6. 6 shaky
  7. 7 active
  8. 8 movable
  9. 9 activity
  10. 10 campaign
  11. 11 maneuver
  12. 12 behavior
  13. 13 classifier: 项 xiàng
  14. 14 classifier: 个 gè
shēng huó
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 activity
  3. 3 to live
  4. 4 livelihood
bǎo shǒu
  1. 1 conservative
  2. 2 to guard
  3. 3 to keep
jiān shǒu
  1. 1 to hold fast to
  2. 2 to stick to

Idioms (20)

不患寡而患不均
bù huàn guǎ ér huàn bù jūn
  1. 1 do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
你死我活
nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
  1. 1 lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
  2. 2 two parties cannot coexist
刻薄寡恩
kè bó guǎ ēn
  1. 1 harsh and merciless (idiom)
因循守旧
yīn xún shǒu jiù
  1. 1 (idiom) to continue in the same old rut
  2. 2 diehard conservative attitudes