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Meaning of 孤

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Pinyin:
English Definition: lone; lonely
Chinese Definition:
①幼年死去父亲或父母双亡:孤儿。遗孤。托孤。孤寡鳏独(孤儿,寡妇,无妻或丧妻的人,年老无子女的人)。
②单独:孤单。孤独。孤立。孤僻。孤傲。孤茕(单独无依然)。孤介。孤身。孤危。孤芳自赏。孤苦伶仃。孤掌难鸣。孤云野鹤(喻闲逸逍遥的人)。
③古代帝王的自称:孤家。孤王。
④古同“辜”,辜负。
Total strokes: 8; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (child) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ zi ] son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
    • [ guā ] melon, gourd, squash, cucumber
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Example Words
孤独 lonely; solitary
孤立 isolate; isolated
孤儿 ér orphan
孤寂 lonesome; desolate
孤单 dān lone; lonely; loneliness
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Example Sentences
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And we give different names, depending on what kind of electrons we're dealing with, so, for example, with h c l here, we can talk about having bonded versus lone pair electrons.
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And if we put that in our bond here, we have 1, 2, 3 bonds, plus we have one lone pair left over.
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The lone-pair interactions change the chemical characteristics of the carbon.
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Then Bruckner's "story" becomes something very different: ideas of wilful perseverance and strange, isolated, successes begin to emerge, despite the exquisite synchronisation of the strings.
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Another classic, this one about a little girl who is orphaned in India and ends up living with an estranged uncle in a big old manor in England.