寡妇 (寡婦)
guǎ fu
Pinyin

Definition

寡妇 (寡婦)
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guǎ fu
  1. widow

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

寡妇
guǎ fu
  1. 1 widow
多寡
duō guǎ
  1. 1 number
  2. 2 amount
孤家寡人
gū jiā guǎ rén
  1. 1 one who is cut off from others (idiom)
  2. 2 one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
  3. 3 (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
孤寡
gū guǎ
  1. 1 orphans and widows
  2. 2 to be lonely
  3. 3 loneliness
寡人
guǎ rén
  1. 1 I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)

Idioms (15)

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)
刻薄寡恩
kè bó guǎ ēn
  1. 1 harsh and merciless (idiom)
失道寡助
shī dào guǎ zhù
  1. 1 an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)
  2. 2 cf 得道多助[dé dào duō zhù] a just cause attracts much support
孤家寡人
gū jiā guǎ rén
  1. 1 one who is cut off from others (idiom)
  2. 2 one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
  3. 3 (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
寡不敌众
guǎ bù dí zhòng
  1. 1 the few are no match for the many
  2. 2 heavily outnumbered
  3. 3 facing impossible odds (idiom)

Sample Sentences

什么寡妇年？
shénme guǎfu nián ？
What's a 'widow's year'?
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我妈跟我说，明年是寡妇年。
wǒ mā gēn wǒ shuō ，míngnián shì guǎfu nián 。
My mom told me that next year is a 'widow's year'.
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宁可信其有，不可信其无。这个说法还是挺吓人的，寡妇年，倒霉的是咱们男人。
nìngkě xìn qí yǒu, bù kě xìn qí wú 。zhè ge shuōfa háishì tǐng xiàrén de ，guǎfu nián ，dǎoméi de shì zánmen nánrén 。
You're better off believing it in case it's true. This expression is pretty scary. 'Widow's year'; it's us guys that are the unlucky ones.
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