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

• 孤城 an isolated city
• 孤独(孤獨) lonely ; solitary ; fatherless or childless
• 孤军奋战(孤軍奮戰) lone army putting up a brave fight
• 孑影孤单(孑影孤單) to be all alone by oneself
• 孤苦无依(孤苦無依) lonely, poor, and without anybody to depend upon
• 孤儿(孤兒) orphan
• 孤岛(孤島) isolated island
• 孤立子波 instanton
• 苦心孤诣(苦心孤詣) to make painstaking efforts; after much trouble; to work hard at sth
• 孤胆(孤膽) solitary hero; maverick
• 孤鸾年(孤鸞年) inauspicious year for marriage
• 孤证不立(孤證不立) unacceptable as uncorroborated evidence (in law or in textual criticism)
• 肚孤 to doze off
• 遗孤(遺孤) orphan
• 断雁孤鸿(斷雁孤鴻) solitary goose, cut off from the flock
• 孤沙锥(孤沙錐) solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
• 孤陋 ignorant; ill-informed
• 孤本 a rare book; only copy of a book ; a calligraphic inscription
• 孤零零 lone; isolated and without help; all alone; solitary
• 孤雌生殖 parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization)
• 孤孑 lonesome; solitary
• 孤魂 lonely soul
• 孤征 to act on one's own; to fight alone
• 鳏寡孤独(鰥寡孤獨) widowers, widows, orphans, and the childless
• 南面称孤(南面稱孤) call oneself ruler
• 孤单(孤單) lone ; lonely
• 独孤求败(獨孤求敗) Dugu Qiubai, a fictional character appearing in novels
• 孤孤凄凄(孤孤悽悽) alone and helpless
• 孤身 alone; lonely
• 孤孑特立 to be all alone in the world
• 脚孤拐(腳孤拐) bunion; hallux valgus
• 孤淒 lonely and desolate
• 藐孤 small orphan
• 孤鸿寡鹄(孤鴻寡鵠) solitary goose and lonely swan; a man or woman who has lost a partner
• 孤苦伶仃 solitary and impoverished
• 孤拔 tall and straight ; Amédée Courbet
• 孤儿药(孤兒藥) orphan drug
• 孤山 isolated peak
• 孤独于世(孤獨於世) alone in the world
• 孤云(孤雲) a poverty stricken person or one who lives as a guest
• 孤陋寡闻(孤陋寡聞) ignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded
• 孤独症(孤獨症) autism
• 孤子 orphan; fatherless son
• 孤愤(孤憤) to be cynical; to be embittered ; Cynicism
• 孤特 to be independent
• 孤僻 antisocial; reclusive; eccentric
• 孤负(孤負) to let down; to betray; to disappoint
• 孤注一掷(孤注一擲) to stake all on one throw
• 孤孀 widow
• 孤身只影(孤身隻影) a lonely body with only a shadow for company; to be all alone

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孤立语

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Truncated for common words

• 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
• 卷二 魏書二 文帝紀 Volume 2: Book of Wei 2 - Annals of Emperor Wen Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — 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
• 恤孤 (恤孤) 上恤孤而民不倍 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《大學》 The Great Learning — count: 4
• 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
• 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
• 二孤 (二孤) 喪有二孤 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 4
• 孤实 (孤實) 孤實不敬 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3