鰥寡孤独

Japanese

Etymology

• From Middle Chinese: 鳏寡孤独

Idiom

鰥寡孤独 (かんかこどく, kan ka ko-doku)

1. Being lonely is having no family. Lit. Widowers and widowed, orphans and childless elderly.

References

• The Kōjien (広辞苑) Dictionary of the Japanese Language, 5th edition, Iwanami Shoten Publishing, Tokyo.