| 寡妇 | guǎ fu | widow |   |
| 遗孀 | yí shuāng | widow | |
| 未亡人 | wèi wáng rén | a widow (a widow's way of referring to herself in former times) | |
| 孀 |  shuāng | widow | |
| 嫠 | lí | widow | |
| 嫠妇 | lí fù | widow (formal) | |
| 孀妇 | shuāng fù | widow (formal) | |
| 孀婺 | shuāng wù | widow | |
| 孤孀 | gū shuāng | widow | |
| 遗妻 | yí qī | widow / the deceased's widow | |
| 杞妇 | Qǐ fù | the wife of 杞梁[Qi3 Liang2], a senior official of the state of Qi 杞[Qi3] who died on a military expedition / (fig.) a widow | |
| 守寡 | shǒu guǎ | to live as widow / to observe widowhood | |
| 从一而终 | cóng yī ér zhōng | faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying) | |
| 守节 | shǒu jié | faithful (to the memory of betrothed) / constant (of widow who remains unmarried) | |
| 寡居 | guǎ jū | to live as a widow | |
| 贞女 | zhēn nu:3 | female virgin / widow who does not remarry | |
| 碧海青天 | bì hǎi qīng tiān | green sea, blue sky (idiom) / sea and sky merge in one shade / loneliness of faithful widow | |
| 嫠节 | lí jié | chastity of a widow (old usage) | |
| 守活寡 | shǒu huó guǎ | to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow | |
| 富孀 | fù shuāng | rich widow | |
| 寡妇净化 | guǎ fù jìng huà | widow cleansing / widow-cleansing | |
| 黑寡妇雷 | | black widow mine | |
| 贞节牌坊 | zhēn jié pái fāng | memorial arch in honor of a chaste widow | |
