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孤苦伶仃
gū kǔ líng dīng
What 孤苦伶仃 means
- solitary and impoverished (idiom)
The characters in 孤苦伶仃
- 孤gūlone; lonely
- 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
- 伶líng(old) actor; actress; (meaningless bound form)
- 仃dīngused in 伶仃
Sounds the same
Read gū kǔ líng dīng, tone for tone, but written differently.
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