寡妇
guǎ fu
Pinyin

Definition

寡妇
 - 
guǎ fu
  1. widow

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

寡妇
guǎ fu
  1. 1 widow
多寡
duō guǎ
  1. 1 number
  2. 2 amount
孤家寡人
gū jiā guǎ rén
  1. 1 one who is cut off from others (idiom)
  2. 2 one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
  3. 3 (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
孤寡
gū guǎ
  1. 1 orphans and widows
  2. 2 to be lonely
  3. 3 loneliness
寡人
guǎ rén
  1. 1 I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
寡情
guǎ qíng
  1. 1 heartless
  2. 2 unfeeling
寡淡
guǎ dàn
  1. 1 insipid
  2. 2 bland
  3. 3 indifferent
寡言
guǎ yán
  1. 1 taciturn
  2. 2 reticent
寡头
guǎ tóu
  1. 1 oligarch
失道寡助
shī dào guǎ zhù
  1. 1 an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)
  2. 2 cf 得道多助[dé dào duō zhù] a just cause attracts much support
孤男寡女
gū nán guǎ nu:3
  1. 1 a single man and a single woman
  2. 2 bachelors
  3. 3 a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
守寡
shǒu guǎ
  1. 1 to live as widow
  2. 2 to observe widowhood
守活寡
shǒu huó guǎ
  1. 1 to stay at home while one's husband is away
  2. 2 grass widow
寡
guǎ
  1. 1 few
  2. 2 scant
  3. 3 widowed
寡不敌众
guǎ bù dí zhòng
  1. 1 the few are no match for the many
  2. 2 heavily outnumbered
  3. 3 facing impossible odds (idiom)
寡助
guǎ zhù
  1. 1 finding little support
  2. 2 neglected
寡居
guǎ jū
  1. 1 to live as a widow
寡糖
guǎ táng
  1. 1 oligosaccharide
曲高和寡
qǔ gāo hè guǎ
  1. 1 difficult songs find few singers (idiom)
  2. 2 highbrow
清汤寡水
qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ
  1. 1 meager fare
  2. 2 (fig.) insipid
  3. 3 colorless

Idioms (15)

不患寡而患不均
bù huàn guǎ ér huàn bù jūn
  1. 1 do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
刻薄寡恩
kè bó guǎ ēn
  1. 1 harsh and merciless (idiom)
失道寡助
shī dào guǎ zhù
  1. 1 an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)
  2. 2 cf 得道多助[dé dào duō zhù] a just cause attracts much support
孤家寡人
gū jiā guǎ rén
  1. 1 one who is cut off from others (idiom)
  2. 2 one who has chosen to follow a solitary path
  3. 3 (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
寡不敌众
guǎ bù dí zhòng
  1. 1 the few are no match for the many
  2. 2 heavily outnumbered
  3. 3 facing impossible odds (idiom)
寡二少双
guǎ èr shǎo shuāng
  1. 1 peerless
  2. 2 second to none (idiom)
得道多助，失道寡助
dé dào duō zhù , shī dào guǎ zhù
  1. 1 A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)
敌众我寡
dí zhòng wǒ guǎ
  1. 1 multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius)
  2. 2 heavily outnumbered
  3. 3 beaten by the weight of numbers
曲高和寡
qǔ gāo hè guǎ
  1. 1 difficult songs find few singers (idiom)
  2. 2 highbrow
木讷寡言
mù nè guǎ yán
  1. 1 honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
沉默寡言
chén mò guǎ yán
  1. 1 habitually silent (idiom)
  2. 2 reticent
  3. 3 uncommunicative
淡泊寡味
dàn bó guǎ wèi
  1. 1 insipid and tasteless (idiom)
众寡悬殊
zhòng guǎ xuán shū
  1. 1 the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered
  2. 2 unequally matched
  3. 3 overwhelmed by weight of numbers
落落寡交
luò luò guǎ jiāo
  1. 1 aloof and as a result friendless (idiom)
裒多益寡
póu duō yì guǎ
  1. 1 to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)

Sample Sentences

什么寡妇年？
shénme guǎfu nián ？
What's a 'widow's year'?
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我妈跟我说，明年是寡妇年。
wǒ mā gēn wǒ shuō ，míngnián shì guǎfu nián 。
My mom told me that next year is a 'widow's year'.
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宁可信其有，不可信其无。这个说法还是挺吓人的，寡妇年，倒霉的是咱们男人。
nìngkě xìn qí yǒu, bù kě xìn qí wú 。zhè ge shuōfa háishì tǐng xiàrén de ，guǎfu nián ，dǎoméi de shì zánmen nánrén 。
You're better off believing it in case it's true. This expression is pretty scary. 'Widow's year'; it's us guys that are the unlucky ones.
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