"Widowed" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 寡 |  guǎ | few / scant / widowed |   |
| 断弦 | duàn xián | widowed / lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟[qin2 se4] qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony | |
| 王太后 | Wáng tài hòu | Queen Dowager (in Europe) / widowed queen / Queen mother | |
| 哀家 | āi jiā | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 居孀 | jū shuāng | to remain widowed (formal) | |
