Kanji1 / 9
孤 kanji
orphan, alone
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 孤
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —孤立無援isolated and helpless; alone and unassisted
- —狷介孤高stubborn and aloof
- —孤城落月feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances
- —孤立概念isolate
- —孤児作品orphan works
- —陸の孤島isolated place; out-of-the-way place; remote part of the land
- —芽殖孤虫Sparganum proliferum (species of worm)
- —残留孤児displaced orphans; displaced children; Japanese orphans left behind in China (after WWII); war-displaced Japanese in China
- —孤立電子対lone pair (of electrons)
- —孤児著作物orphan works
- —孤独恐怖症eremophobia; monophobia
- —孤立特異点isolated singularity
- —百年の孤独One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez)
- —中国残留孤児Japanese orphans left behind in China (after WWII); war-displaced Japanese in China
- —孤掌鳴らし難しone cannot live solely by oneself; one cannot accomplish anything solely by oneself; clapping with one hand is hard
- —徳は孤ならず必ず隣ありthe virtuous man will not long remain lonely
- —孤悲(romantic) love
- —孤食meal with family members eating separate foods; eating alone (without one's family)