{"path":"/entry/120378","title":"鳏寡孤独 / 鰥寡孤獨 (guān guǎ gū dú) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"鳏寡孤独 / 鰥寡孤獨 (guān guǎ gū dú): widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":120378,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["鳏寡孤独"],"TRADITIONAL":["鰥寡孤獨"]}},"phonetic":"guān guǎ gū dú","phoneticKey":"guan1 gua3 gu1 du2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"widowers, widows, orphans and the childless ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"people with no one left to rely on","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["IDIOM"],"frequency":98246,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Mencius (《孟子·梁惠王下》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"老而无妻曰鳏，老而无夫曰寡，老而无子曰独，幼而无父曰孤。","traditional":"老而無妻曰鰥，老而無夫曰寡，老而無子曰獨，幼而無父曰孤。"},"phonetic":"Lǎo ér wú qī yuē guān, lǎo ér wú fū yuē guǎ, lǎo ér wú zǐ yuē dú, yòu ér wú fù yuē gū.","english":"There were the old and wifeless, or widowers; the old and husbandless, or widows; the old and childless, or solitaries; the young and fatherless, or orphans","ref":"Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}