{"path":"/entry/39011","title":"形单影只 / 形單影隻 (xíng dān yǐng zhī) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"形单影只 / 形單影隻 (xíng dān yǐng zhī): lonely soul · solitary. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":39011,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["形单影只"],"TRADITIONAL":["形單影隻"]}},"phonetic":"xíng dān yǐng zhī","phoneticKey":"xing2 dan1 ying3 zhi1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"lonely soul","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"solitary","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":26751,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["只"],"TRADITIONAL":["秖","隻"]}},"phonetic":"zhī","primaryPhonetic":"zhǐ"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Coined by Han Yu in 803 in a funeral oration to his nephew","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"吾上有三兄，皆不幸早世。承先人后者，在孙惟汝，在子惟吾。两世一身，形单影只。","traditional":"吾上有三兄，皆不幸早世。承先人後者，在孫惟汝，在子惟吾。兩世一身，形單影隻。"},"phonetic":"Wú shàng yǒu sān xiōng, jiē bùxìng zǎoshì. Chéng xiānrén hòu zhě, zài sūn wéi rǔ, zài zǐ wéi wú. Liǎng shì yī shēn, xíng dān yǐng zhī.","english":"My three brothers all early died, leaving only us, a grandson and a son, to carry on the ancestral line. We were two generations, with but one body, one form, one shadow.","ref":"803, 韓愈,《祭十二郎文》, transl. Herbert Giles"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}