孤 gū

1. gū adjective solitary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '孤' 2, p. 138; Unihan '孤')
2. gū adjective orphaned; fatherless
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Relationship
   Notes: (Guoyu '孤' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '孤' 1, p. 138; Unihan '孤')
3. gū adjective aloof; unique
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '孤' adj 3; Kroll 2015 '孤' 2b, p. 138)
4. gū verb not attached; to abandon
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '孤' v; Kroll 2015 '孤' 2a, p. 138)
5. gū pronoun the lone one; the ruler
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '孤' pronoun; Kroll 2015 '孤' 3, p. 138)
6. gū adjective not deserving
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '孤' 4, p. 138)
7. gū noun government official [role]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Name of a role in a play (Guoyu '孤' n 1)
8. gū proper noun Gu
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '孤' n 2)

Contained in

• 孤孀 widow
• 孤高 arrogant
• 孤苦无依(孤苦無依) lonely, poor, and without anybody to depend upon
• 孤胆英雄(孤膽英雄) solitary hero; maverick
• 孤子 orphan; fatherless son
• 西风漫卷孤城(西風漫卷孤城) the western wind is whirling around the city wall
• 孤负(孤負) to let down; to betray; to disappoint
• 孤寡 orphans and widows; to be lonely; loneliness
• 孤胆(孤膽) solitary hero; maverick
• 孤零零 lone; isolated and without help; all alone; solitary
• 孤立无援(孤立無援) isolated and without help
• 孤鸿(孤鴻) solitary goose
• 孤家寡人 one who is cut off from others; one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
• 孤鸟(孤鳥) lone bird; marginalized (country, person etc)
• 孤鸿寡鹄(孤鴻寡鵠) solitary goose and lonely swan; a man or woman who has lost a partner
• 孤哀子 an orphan
• 孤雌生殖 parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization)
• 鳏寡孤独(鰥寡孤獨) widowers, widows, orphans, and the childless
• 孤沙锥(孤沙錐) solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
• 藐孤 small orphan
• 生态孤岛(生態孤島) insularization (as a threat to biodiversity)
• 孤立 to isolate ; isolated
• 孤老 a solitary old man or woman
• 孤岛(孤島) isolated island
• 孤山 isolated peak
• 孤独(孤獨) lonely ; solitary ; fatherless or childless
• 孤陋 ignorant; ill-informed
• 孤孑特立 to be all alone in the world
• 孤淒 lonely and desolate
• 孤征 to act on one's own; to fight alone
• 孤单(孤單) lone ; lonely
• 孤鸾年(孤鸞年) inauspicious year for marriage
• 孤城 an isolated city
• 孤身只影(孤身隻影) a lonely body with only a shadow for company; to be all alone
• 一意孤行 obstinately clinging to one's course; willful; one's own way; dogmatic
• 孤儿药(孤兒藥) orphan drug
• 孤寒 alone and poor; humble; (Cantonese) miserly
• 孤拔 tall and straight ; Amédée Courbet
• 孑影孤单(孑影孤單) to be all alone by oneself
• 孤独症(孤獨症) autism
• 孤本 a rare book; only copy of a book ; a calligraphic inscription
• 孤寂 lonesome; desolate
• 孤绝(孤絕) isolated; solitary; unique; incomparable
• 孤愤(孤憤) to be cynical; to be embittered ; Cynicism
• 孤注一掷(孤注一擲) to stake all on one throw
• 孤儿(孤兒) orphan
• 南面称孤(南面稱孤) call oneself ruler
• 孤立子波 instanton
• 孤特 to be independent
• 孤掌难鸣(孤掌難鳴) it is difficult for one person applauding alone to make much sound

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孤立语

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• 卷一百二十六 載記第二十六 禿髮烏孤 禿髮利鹿孤 禿髮傉檀 Volume 126 Records 26: Tufa Wugu; Tufa Lilugu; Tufa Rutan Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 48
• 卷五十四 吳書九 周瑜魯肅呂蒙傳 Volume 54: Book of Wu 9 - Biographies of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 36
• 吳語 Discourses of Wu Guoyu 國語 — count: 26
• 卷一 魏書一 武帝紀 Volume 1: Book of Wei 1 - Annals of Emperor Wu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 26
• 卷四十七 吳書二 吳主傳 Volume 47: Book of Wu 2 - Biography of the Lord of Wu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 24
• 卷五十二 吳書七 張顧諸葛步傳 Volume 52: Book of Wu 7 - Biographies of Zhang, Gu, Zhuge, and Bu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 23
• 卷十一 魏書十一 袁張涼國田王邴管傳 Volume 11: Book of Wei 11 - Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Liang, Guo, Tian, Wang, Bing, and Guan Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 22
• 卷七 越絕外傳記范伯第八　越絕內傳陳成恒第九 Scroll 7 Yue Jue Shu 越絕書 — count: 19
• 第七十八回 Chapter 78 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 17
• 卷七十三　列傳第六十一:　梁士彥 元諧 虞慶則 元冑 達奚長儒 賀婁子幹 史萬歲 劉方 杜彥 周搖 獨孤楷 乞伏慧 張威 和洪 陰壽 楊義臣 Volume 73 Biographies 61: Liang Shiyan, Yuan Xie, Yu Qingze, Yuan Zhou, Daxi Zhangru, Helou Zigan, Shi Wansui, Liu Fang, Du Yan, Zhou Yao, Du Gukai, Qi Fuhui, Zhang Wei, He Hong, Yin Shou, Yang Yichen History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 15

Collocations

• 孤竹 (孤竹) 孤竹之管 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites — count: 23
• 孤卿 (孤卿) 孤卿有邦事 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 9
• 孤臣 (孤臣) 獨孤臣孽子 — Mencius 孟子, 盡心上 Jin Xin I — count: 6
• 幼孤 (幼孤) 曰論幼孤 — Guanzi 管子, 四時第四十 Chapter 40: The Four Seasons — count: 6
• 及孤 (及孤) 凡命諸侯及孤卿 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites — count: 5
• 曰孤 (曰孤) 自稱曰孤 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 — count: 4
• 二孤 (二孤) 喪有二孤 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 4
• 人主孤 (人主孤) 則人主孤而毋內 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 4
• 恤孤 (恤孤) 上恤孤而民不倍 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《大學》 The Great Learning — count: 4
• 北伐孤 (北伐孤) 北伐孤竹 — Guanzi 管子, 霸形第二十二 Chapter 22: Ba Xing — count: 3