断弦 duànxián to lose one's wife Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 断弦 斷弦 duàn//xián to lose one's wife to be widowed as a man; literally "a broken string", based on the ancient metaphor of a married couple being like two harmonious musical instruments broken string a string of a musical instrument that has snapped or broken Frequency Written text 0.147 per million Cross-References See 琴瑟 qínsèAntonym 续弦 xùxián Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
断弦 斷弦 duàn//xián to lose one's wife to be widowed as a man; literally "a broken string", based on the ancient metaphor of a married couple being like two harmonious musical instruments broken string a string of a musical instrument that has snapped or broken Frequency Written text 0.147 per million Cross-References See 琴瑟 qínsèAntonym 续弦 xùxián Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
