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孤单

gū dān

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 孤單

孤单 (gū dān) means "lone; lonely; loneliness". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 孤单 means

1. lone
2. lonely
3. loneliness

The characters in 孤单

• 孤gūlone; lonely
• 单dānbill; list; form

Example sentences

• 我很孤单。
  I'm lonely.
• 我好孤单。
  I am so lonely.
• 汤姆非常孤单。
  Tom is very much alone.
• 我当时不孤单。
  I wasn't alone then.
• 她看起来很孤单。
  She looked lonely.
• 汤姆又孤单又不幸。
  Tom is lonely and unhappy.

Where 孤单 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Negative emotions & reactions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gū dān correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.