孤
Meanings
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- 1.lone
- 2.lonely
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Wiktionary
- 1.orphaned; parentless
- 2.alone; solitary; sole; lone
- 3.orphan
- 4.I
- 5.only; just; solely
- 6.Classifier for persons.
- 7.Refers to a lonesome ghost or lonely soul.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʷaː): semantic 子 (“child”) + phonetic 瓜 (OC *kʷraː). Related to 寡 (OC *kʷraːʔ, “alone; widow”), 鰥 (OC *kruːn, *kruːns, “widower”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我當時不孤單。
I wasn't alone then.
他十歲時成了孤兒。
He became an orphan when he was ten.
說實話，我感到孤獨。
To tell the truth, I felt lonely.
孤獨的人會孤獨，是因為他畏懼他人。
Lonely people tend to be afraid of meeting others, which ensures they will always be lonely.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
孤独 lonely孤单 lone孤儿 orphan孤立 to isolate藐孤 small orphan孤征 to act on one's own孤鸟 lone bird遗孤 orphan孤拔 Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War独孤 two-character surname Dugu孤老 solitary old man or woman孤岛 isolated island