Definitions
alone, desolate; without friends or family
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The character 茕, whose traditional form is 煢, etymologically relates to solitary existence and originally denoted a person without siblings or kin. Structurally, the traditional character 煢 incorporates the fire radical 火, while the simplified form 茕 substitutes this with the grass radical 艹 and integrates the component 营. Its meaning shifted from that specific familial context to a more general sense of loneliness or isolation over centuries of usage.
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