鳏寡孤独 (鰥寡孤獨)
guān guǎ gū dú
Pinyin

Definition

鳏寡孤独 (鰥寡孤獨)
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guān guǎ gū dú
  1. lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless
  2. fig. people with no one left to rely on

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

孤单
gū dān
  1. 1 lone
  2. 2 lonely
  3. 3 loneliness
孤独
gū dú
  1. 1 lonely
  2. 2 solitary
寡妇
guǎ fu
  1. 1 widow
孤
gū
  1. 1 lone
  2. 2 lonely
孤傲
gū ào
  1. 1 proud and aloof

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
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)