孤独 in Chinese / Japanese...

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孤獨 means lonely, solitude, loneliness, and lonesome.
In some contexts, it can mean reclusive, isolated, single, or solo.

孤獨 is a Japanese word but not a good selection for a wall scroll.
In Chinese, this will relay a rather sad feeling to anyone who reads this calligraphy on your wall.

The version shown to the left is the Traditional Chinese and ancient Japanese version. In modern Japan and China they often use a different more simplified version of the second character (as shown to the right). If you want this Japanese/Simplified version, please click on the character shown to the right instead of the button above.

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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 孤独 search...

Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese	Pronunciation Romanization	Simple Dictionary Definition
孤独 see styles	kodoku こどく	More info & calligraphy: Lonely (n,adj-na,adj-no) solitude; loneliness; isolation
孤獨孤独 see styles	gū dú gu1 du2 ku tu kodoku	More info & calligraphy: Lonely lonely; solitary orphan
孤独感 see styles	kodokukan こどくかん	孤独感 Custom Scroll sense of isolation; (feelings of) loneliness
孤独死 see styles	kodokushi こどくし	孤独死 Custom Scroll (n,vs,vi) dying alone (esp. of someone who lives alone and dies of natural causes at home without anyone knowing); solitary death
孤獨園孤独园 see styles	gū dú yuán gu1 du2 yuan2 ku tu yüan Kodoku on	孤獨園 Custom Scroll is also a term for an orphanage, asylum, etc.
孤獨症孤独症 see styles	gū dú zhèng gu1 du2 zheng4 ku tu cheng	孤獨症 Custom Scroll autism
給孤獨给孤独 see styles	jǐ gū dú ji3 gu1 du2 chi ku tu Gikkodoku	給孤獨 Custom Scroll Anāthapiṇḍada
天涯孤独 see styles	tengaikodoku てんがいこどく	天涯孤独 Custom Scroll (yoji) a person without a single relative
孤獨地獄孤独地狱 see styles	gū dú dì yù gu1 du2 di4 yu4 ku tu ti yü kodoku jigoku	孤獨地獄 Custom Scroll solitary hells
孤獨於世孤独于世 see styles	gū dú yú shì gu1 du2 yu2 shi4 ku tu yü shih	孤獨於世 Custom Scroll alone in the world (idiom)
給孤獨園给孤独园 see styles	jǐ gū dú yuán ji3 gu1 du2 yuan2 chi ku tu yüan Kyūkodoku en	給孤獨園 Custom Scroll Anātha-piṇḍa-dasyârāmaḥ
鰥寡孤独 see styles	kankakodoku かんかこどく	鰥寡孤独 Custom Scroll (yoji) with no one upon whom to depend; utter loneliness; the lonely and the helpless; people who have no kith or kin
鰥寡孤獨鳏寡孤独 see styles	guān guǎ gū dú guan1 gua3 gu1 du2 kuan kua ku tu	鰥寡孤獨 Custom Scroll lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless; fig. people with no one left to rely on
百年の孤独 see styles	hyakunennokodoku ひゃくねんのこどく	百年の孤独 Custom Scroll (work) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez); (wk) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez)
給孤獨長者给孤独长者 see styles	jǐ gū dú zhǎng zhě ji3 gu1 du2 zhang3 zhe3 chi ku tu chang che Kyūkodoku Chōsha	給孤獨長者 Custom Scroll Anāthapiṇḍika
祇樹給孤獨園祇树给孤独园 see styles	qí shù gěi gū dú yuán qi2 shu4 gei3 gu1 du2 yuan2 ch`i shu kei ku tu yüan chi shu kei ku tu yüan Gijugikkodoku on	祇樹給孤獨園 Custom Scroll Jetavana Anāthapiṇḍada-ārāma

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title	Characters	Romaji (Romanized Japanese)	Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Lonely	孤獨孤独	ko doku / kodoku	gū dú / gu1 du2 / gu du / gudu	ku tu / kutu
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.