守活寡
shǒu huó guǎ
Pinyin

Definition

守活寡
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shǒu huó guǎ
  1. to stay at home while one's husband is away
  2. grass widow

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

活
huó
  1. 1 to live
  2. 2 alive
  3. 3 living
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 workmanship
活动
huó dòng
  1. 1 to exercise
  2. 2 to move about
  3. 3 to operate
  4. 4 to use connections (personal influence)
  5. 5 loose
  6. 6 shaky
  7. 7 active
  8. 8 movable
  9. 9 activity
  10. 10 campaign
  11. 11 maneuver
  12. 12 behavior
  13. 13 CL:項|项[xiàng],個|个[gè]
生活
shēng huó
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 activity
  3. 3 to live
  4. 4 livelihood
保守
bǎo shǒu
  1. 1 conservative
  2. 2 to guard
  3. 3 to keep
坚守
jiān shǒu
  1. 1 to hold fast to
  2. 2 to stick to
守
shǒu
  1. 1 to guard
  2. 2 to defend
  3. 3 to keep watch
  4. 4 to abide by the law
  5. 5 to observe (rules or ritual)
  6. 6 nearby
  7. 7 adjoining
守住
shǒu zhu
  1. 1 to hold on to
  2. 2 to defend
  3. 3 to keep
  4. 4 to guard
守候
shǒu hòu
  1. 1 to wait for
  2. 2 to expect
  3. 3 to keep watch
  4. 4 to watch over
  5. 5 to nurse
守岁
shǒu suì
  1. 1 to see in the New Year
  2. 2 to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
守卫
shǒu wèi
  1. 1 to guard
  2. 2 to defend
守护
shǒu hù
  1. 1 to guard
  2. 2 to protect
寡妇
guǎ fu
  1. 1 widow
干活
gàn huó
  1. 1 to work
  2. 2 to be employed
厮守
sī shǒu
  1. 1 to stay together
  2. 2 to rely on one another
复活
fù huó
  1. 1 to revive
  2. 2 (lit. and fig.) to come back to life
  3. 3 (religion) resurrection
忙活
máng huo
  1. 1 to be really busy
  2. 2 pressing business
快活
kuài huo
  1. 1 happy
  2. 2 cheerful
死去活来
sǐ qù huó lái
  1. 1 to hover between life and death (idiom)
  2. 2 to suffer terribly
  3. 3 within an inch of one's life
死活
sǐ huó
  1. 1 life or death
  2. 2 fate
  3. 3 no matter what
  4. 4 anyway
  5. 5 for the life of me
活佛
huó fó
  1. 1 Living Buddha
  2. 2 title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century

Idioms (20)

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)
不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
你死我活
nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
  1. 1 lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
  2. 2 two parties cannot coexist
刻薄寡恩
kè bó guǎ ēn
  1. 1 harsh and merciless (idiom)
因循守旧
yīn xún shǒu jiù
  1. 1 (idiom) to continue in the same old rut
  2. 2 diehard conservative attitudes
墨守成规
mò shǒu chéng guī
  1. 1 hidebound by convention (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
好死不如赖活着
hǎo sǐ bù rú lài huó zhe
  1. 1 better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
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)
守口如瓶
shǒu kǒu rú píng
  1. 1 lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped
  2. 2 reticent
  3. 3 not breathing a word
守土有责
shǒu tǔ yǒu zé
  1. 1 duty to defend the country (idiom)
守望相助
shǒu wàng xiāng zhù
  1. 1 to keep watch and defend one another (idiom, from Mencius); to join forces to defend against external aggressors
  2. 2 mutual help and protection
守株待兔
shǒu zhū dài tù
  1. 1 lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom)
  2. 2 to wait idly for opportunities
  3. 3 to trust to chance rather than show initiative
守株待兔，缘木求鱼
shǒu zhū dài tù , yuán mù qiú yú
  1. 1 to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
安分守己
ān fèn shǒu jǐ
  1. 1 to be content with one's lot (idiom)
  2. 2 to know one's place
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)
抱残守缺
bào cán shǒu quē
  1. 1 to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative
  2. 2 stickler for tradition
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

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