失獨

See also: 失独

Chinese

		to lose; to miss; to fail	alone; independent; single alone; independent; single; sole; only
trad. (失獨)		失	獨
simp. (失独)		失	独

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shīdú

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sat¹ duk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shīdú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shihdú
    • Wade–Giles: shih¹-tu²
    • Yale: shr̄-dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shydwu
    • Palladius: шиду (šidu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sat¹ duk⁶
    • Yale: sāt duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sat⁷ duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sed¹ dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐt̚⁵ tʊk̚²/

Verb

失獨

1. (neologism, of parents) to lose one's only child (and be yet unable to have another one due to old age or government policy)
   • 2013, 赵学慧, editor, 《老年社会工作理论与实务》, Beijing: 北京大学出版社 [Peking University Press], →ISBN, page 192:

     孤寡老人主要有这样几种情形：终身未婚、丧偶无子女或失独。 [MSC, simp.]
     孤寡老人主要有這樣幾種情形：終身未婚、喪偶無子女或失獨。 [MSC, trad.]

     Gūguǎ lǎorén zhǔyào yǒu zhèyàng jī zhǒng qíngxíng: zhōngshēn wèihūn, sàng'ǒu wú zǐnǚ huò shīdú. [Pinyin]

     Elderly people with no family mainly fall into these few situations: remaining unmarried for their life, having lost their spouse without having children, or having lost their only child.