兔死狐悲
tù sǐ hú bēi
Pinyin

Definition

兔死狐悲
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tù sǐ hú bēi
  1. lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

悲伤
bēi shāng
  1. 1 sad
  2. 2 sorrowful
死
sǐ
  1. 1 to die
  2. 2 impassable
  3. 3 uncrossable
  4. 4 inflexible
  5. 5 rigid
  6. 6 extremely
  7. 7 damned
伤悲
shāng bēi
  1. 1 sad
  2. 2 sorrowful (literary)
兔
tù
  1. 1 variant: 兔 tù
兔子
tù zi
  1. 1 hare
  2. 2 rabbit
  3. 3 classifier: 只 zhī

Idioms (20)

不到黄河心不死
bù dào Huáng Hé xīn bù sǐ
  1. 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
  3. 3 to keep going while some hope is left
不是鱼死就是网破
bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò
  1. 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
  3. 3 it's either him or me
不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ
  1. 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
  2. 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
不见兔子不撒鹰
bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng
  1. 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
  2. 2 one doesn't act without some incentive