- wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom)
- person who has no family or friends to rely on
Characters
- 孤 (孤): lone; lonely
- 魂 (䰟): old variant of 魂[hun2]
- 野 (埜): old variant of 野[ye3]
- 鬼 (鬼): disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3]); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
Resources
- Wiktionary: 孤魂野鬼
- MDBG: 孤魂野鬼
- Examples with 孤魂野鬼 on Tatoeba
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