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Mythic Mandarin

孤独 (gū dú): meaning and stroke order

孤独 (gū dú) means lonely, solitary.

孤独

Simplified
孤独
Traditional
孤獨
Pinyin
gū dú

Stroke order of 孤独

孤

  • gū lone; lonely
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

独

  • dú alone; independent
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 獨

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 孤独

  1. gū dú Traditional 孤獨
    • lonely
    • solitary

Radicals of the characters

孤
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 8 strokes · 子 on the left, 瓜 on the right
独
Radical 犬 (Kangxi radical 94) · 9 strokes · 犭 on the left, 虫 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

孤独 in our stories

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  • 出发前，她已经想好了标题：《消失的手艺，孤独的老人》。

    chūfā qián tā yǐjīng xiǎng hǎo le biāotí xiāoshī de shǒuyì gūdú de lǎorén

    Before she set off, she had already decided on the headline: "A Vanishing Craft, a Lonely Old Man".

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

Stories using 孤独

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).