顾影自怜 — Chinese idiom
顾影自怜
gù yǐng zì lián
Traditional: 顧影自憐
Meaning
- lit. looking at one's shadow and feeling sorry for oneself
- fig. alone and dejected
Character by character
- 顾gùto look back; to look at; to look after
- 影yǐngshadow; image, reflection; photograph
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 怜liánto pity, to sympathize with
Idioms sharing a character
- 三顾茅庐 sān gù máo lú
- 不屑一顾 bù xiè yī gù
- 不管不顾 bù guǎn bù gù
- 不顾一切 bù gù yī qiè
- 不顾前后 bù gù qián hòu
- 奋不顾身 fèn bù gù shēn
- 左顾右盼 zuǒ gù yòu pàn
- 后顾之忧 hòu gù zhī yōu
- 悍然不顾 hàn rán bù gù
- 瞻前顾后 zhān qián gù hòu
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