孤
gū HSK6

orphan

孤 gū
solitary adjective
lone; being the only one; isolated or standing apart from others

广阔的湖面上只有一只孤舟在随风漂荡。

guǎng​kuò de hú​miàn shàng zhǐ yǒu yī zhī gū zhōu zài suí fēng piāo​dàng.

A lone boat drifted with the wind across the vast lake.

lonely adjective
lonesome; feeling sad or depressed due to a lack of companionship

他晚年过着清孤的生活，很少有人探望。

tā wǎn​nián guò zhe qīng gū de shēng​huó, hěn shǎo yǒu rén tàn​wàng.

In his later years, he lived a solitary life with very few visitors.

royal I noun
a first-person pronoun used by ancient kings or dukes to refer to themselves

孤意已决，卿等勿复言。

gū yì yǐ jué, qīng děng wù fù yán.

I have made up my mind; you all need not say another word.

orphaned adjective
having lost one's parents (historically especially the father)

他在战争中失去了双亲，成了一名孤儿。

tā zài zhàn​zhēng zhōng shī​qù le shuāng​qīn, chéng le yī míng gū'ér.

He lost both his parents in the war and became an orphan.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,334th most common 92.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,171st most common 75.3 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.01 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
50.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5B64

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)