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孤苦零丁

gū kǔ líng dīng

4-character word

What 孤苦零丁 means

1. variant of {孤苦伶仃|gū kǔ líng dīng}

The characters in 孤苦零丁

• 孤gūlone; lonely
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
• 零língzero; nought; zero sign
• 丁dīngmale adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干; fourth (used like "4" or "D")

Sounds the same

Read gū kǔ líng dīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 孤苦伶仃solitary and impoverished (idiom)