a lone dove or a solitary bird -- a widow(guǎ hú gū luán)

a lone dove or a solitary bird -- a widow

Gu Hu Gu Luan, a Chinese idiom, is pronounced Gu ǎ h ú g ū Lu á n, which means men and women who have lost their spouses. It comes from Dong Xiao Fu by Wang Bao of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Bao's Ode to Dongxiao in the Han Dynasty said, "it's better to entertain a lonely female than a few cranes."

Analysis of Idioms

A synonym for "lonely and lonely"

Idiom usage

Although the spirit is far away, loyalty and righteousness exist in the world, only a few swans and lonely luans give up. (Ming Feng Ji by Wang Shizhen of Ming Dynasty, the tenth)

Chinese PinYin : guǎ hú gū luán