Keyword
widowed
- friendless
- alone
- Frequency
- #2356
- Strokes
- 14
Readings
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Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
寡妇
widow
寡头
oligarch
多寡
number; amount
寡
few; scant; widowed
寡人
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
优柔寡断
indecisive; irresolute
沉默寡言
habitually silent (idiom); reticent; uncommunicative
寡不敌众
the few are no match for the many; heavily outnumbered; facing impossible odds (idiom)
寡头政治
oligarchy
孤陋寡闻
ignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded
守寡
to live as widow; to observe widowhood
郁郁寡欢
(idiom) depressed; cheerless
孤家寡人
one who is cut off from others (idiom); one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
寡言
taciturn; reticent
寡居
to live as a widow
孤寡
orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness
孤男寡女
a single man and a single woman; bachelors; a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
曲高和寡
difficult songs find few singers (idiom); highbrow
清心寡欲
(idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence; abstemious; ascetic
寡糖
oligosaccharide
守活寡
to stay at home while one's husband is away; grass widow
敌众我寡
multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered; beaten by the weight of numbers
寡淡
insipid; bland; indifferent
鳏寡孤独
(lit.) widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom); (fig.) people with no one left to rely on