寥
liáo
Pinyin

Definition

寥
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liáo
  1. empty
  2. lonesome
  3. very few

Character Decomposition

Related Words (6)

寂寥
jì liáo
  1. 1 (literary) quiet and desolate
  2. 2 lonely
  3. 3 vast and empty
寥寥
liáo liáo
  1. 1 very few
寥寥无几
liáo liáo wú jǐ
  1. 1 just a very few (idiom); tiny number
  2. 2 not many at all
  3. 3 You count them on your fingers.
寥寥可数
liáo liáo kě shǔ
  1. 1 just a very few (idiom); tiny number
  2. 2 just a handful
  3. 3 not many at all
  4. 4 You count them on your fingers.
寥若晨星
liáo ruò chén xīng
  1. 1 rare as morning stars (idiom)
  2. 2 few and far between
  3. 3 sparse

Idioms (3)

寥寥可数
liáo liáo kě shǔ
  1. 1 just a very few (idiom); tiny number
  2. 2 just a handful
  3. 3 not many at all
  4. 4 You count them on your fingers.
寥寥无几
liáo liáo wú jǐ
  1. 1 just a very few (idiom); tiny number
  2. 2 not many at all
  3. 3 You count them on your fingers.
寥若晨星
liáo ruò chén xīng
  1. 1 rare as morning stars (idiom)
  2. 2 few and far between
  3. 3 sparse

Sample Sentences

自古逢秋悲寂寥，
zìgǔ féng qiū bēi jìliáo ，
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那撒向江水的一樽酒，便连接了这虚幻与真实，仿佛穿越了时空，把诗人孤单却激越的情怀投入了那冠盖云集的古三国战场上，也让他寂寥的心得到了些许慰藉。
nà sā xiàng jiāng shuǐ de yī zūn jiǔ ，biàn liánjiē le zhè xūhuàn yǔ zhēnshí ，fǎngfú chuānyuè le shíkōng ，bǎ shīrén gūdān què jīyuè de qínghuái tóurù le nà guàngàiyúnjí de gǔ guó zhànchǎng shàng ，yě ràng tā jìliáo de xīn dédào le xiē xǔ wèijiè 。
The cup of alcohol sprinkled on the river water, links the illusory with the real, as if passing through time and space, infusing the poet's lonely yet intense mood into the overcast skies of the battleground of the Three Kingdoms, giving some consolation to his lonely heart.
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又寂寥的雨巷，
yòu jìliáo de yǔ xiàng ，
and lonesome rainy alley,
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她彷徨在这寂寥的雨巷，
tā pánghuáng zài zhè jìliáo de yǔ xiàng ，
she wanders in this solitary and lonely rainy alley,
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