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


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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