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鳏

guān

Character Traditional 鰥

What 鳏 means

1. widower

Example sentences

• 死了妻子的人叫做鳏夫。
  Sǐ le qīzi de rén jiàozuò guānfū.
  A man whose wife is dead is called a widower.

Words starting with 鳏

• 鳏夫guān fūold wifeless man; bachelor; widower
• 鳏居guān jūto live as a widower
• 鳏寡孤独guān guǎ gū dú(lit.) widowers, widows, orphans and the childless (idiom)…

Characters that look like 鳏

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 瞬shùnto wink
• 鳄è(bound form) alligator; crocodile
• 鳕xuěcodfish; Gadus macrocephalus
• 蹋tàto step on
• 龌wòdirty; small-minded
• 鳃sāigills of fish

Sounds the same

Read guān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 关mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up…
• 观to look at; to watch; to observe
• 官government official; governmental; official
• 棺coffin
• 莞Skimmia japonica
• 冠hat; crown; crest
• 倌keeper of domestic animals; herdsman; (old) hired hand in certain trade
• 蒄(herb mentioned in ancient texts)
• 瘝incapacitated; inefficient
• 関variant of 关
• 覌variant of 观
• 闗old variant of 关