親おやなし子ご

noun

orphan; parentless child

A child who has lost both parents or has been abandoned. Slightly literary or formal; in everyday speech 孤児 (こじ) is more common.

• 戦せん争そうで親おやなし子ごになった子こどもたちが大おお勢ぜいいた。

  There were many children who became orphans because of the war.

• 彼かれは親おやなし子ごとして施し設せつで育そだった。

  He grew up in an institution as an orphan.