寡妇死儿子
guǎ​fu​sǐ'ér​zi

hopeless

  • created sense approved 寡妇死儿子/寡婦死兒子 · guǎ​fu​sǐ'ér​zi · hopeless — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    寡妇死儿子 / 寡婦死兒子

    guǎ​fu​sǐ'ér​zi

    hopeless

    (xiehouyu) to have no hope left; describes a situation with no future prospects, referring to the traditional belief that a widow who loses her only son has no one left to support her in old age

    guǎ​fù​sǐ'ér​zi

    寡妇 (literal) → 寡妇/寡婦 · guǎ​fu · widow 死 (literal) → 死 · sǐ · to die 儿子 (literal) → 儿子/兒子 · ér​zi · son

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense