孀 — Chinese character
孀
shuāng
widow
- Pinyin
- shuāng
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 20
- Components
- 女 霜
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 霜
- Japanese
- 孀 as a kanji
Common words with 孀
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 遗孀 (遺孀) | yí shuāng | (formal) widow |
| 孀居 | shuāng jū | to live in widowhood (formal) |
| 富孀 | fù shuāng | rich widow |
| 孀妇 (孀婦) | shuāng fù | (formal) widow |
| 孀闺 (孀閨) | shuāng guī | a widow's chamber (old usage) |
| 孤孀 | gū shuāng | widow |
| 居孀 | jū shuāng | to remain widowed (formal) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.