Illustration: In a family living room, a child sits close beside an older relative, holding a photograph of herself between her mother and father. The same two adults appear in separate memorial portraits beside a household Buddhist altar with flowers and a small offering bowl.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

孤こ児じ

koji

orphan

Example sentences

人々ひとびとはその孤児こじを哀あわれんだ。
People took pity on the orphan.
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彼かれはその孤児こじを養子ようしにした。
He adopted the orphan.
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両親りょうしんが亡なくなった子供こどもは孤児こじと呼よばれる。
A child whose parents are dead is called an orphan.
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Kanji in 孤児

孤orphan; aloneOnコ
児newborn babe; childOnジ・ニ・ゲイKunこ

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