孤独（こどく）
JLPT N2 · noun
Pitch accent: heiban (flat) — starts low, then stays high with no drop
Meaning: loneliness / solitude
Example sentences
- 一人暮らしの孤独を感じる。 — I feel the loneliness of living alone.
- 孤独をいやすために趣味を持つ。 — I took up a hobby to ease my loneliness.
Idioms & proverbs containing “孤独”
- 天涯孤独 (てんがいこどく) — a person without a single relative
- 鰥寡孤独 (かんかこどく) — with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin
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See it used in real works
- Example sentences from Japanese novels & web fiction (Massif)
- Hear “孤独” pronounced in real videos (YouGlish)