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widow
HSK 7-9
ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded
HSK 7-9
one who is cut off from others (idiom) / one who has chosen to follow a solitary path / (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
orphans and widows / to be lonely / loneliness
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  *寡* | 寡* | *寡
few / scant / widowed
oligarch
I (first person pronoun used by royalty or nobility)
number; amount
meager fare / (fig.) insipid / colorless
indecisive / irresolute
a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
taciturn / reticent
to live as widow / to observe widowhood
(idiom) uninterested in self-indulgence / abstemious / ascetic
the few are no match for the many / heavily outnumbered / facing impossible odds (idiom)
(idiom) depressed; cheerless
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius) / cf 得道多助 a just cause attracts much support
multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers
lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless / fig. people with no one left to rely on
(idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength
difficult songs find few singers (idiom) / highbrow
aloof / standoffish / unsociable
to live as a widow
having little knowledge / not well-read
dull and insipid
the many or the few
oligosaccharide
do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
harsh and merciless (idiom)
insipid / bland / indifferent
honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
(ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
peerless / second to none (idiom)
(esp. of an unjust cause) to receive little support
heartless / unfeeling
oligopoly
oligarchy
A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)
insipid and tasteless (idiom)
aloof and as a result friendless (idiom)
melancholy / unhappy
to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)


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