同居
tóng jū
Pinyin

Definition

同居
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tóng jū
  1. to live together

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

不同
bù tóng
  1. 1 different
  2. 2 distinct
  3. 3 not the same
  4. 4 not alike
同
tóng
  1. 1 (used in given names)
  2. 2 variant: 同 tóng
共同
gòng tóng
  1. 1 common
  2. 2 joint
  3. 3 jointly
  4. 4 together
  5. 5 collaborative
同事
tóng shì
  1. 1 colleague
  2. 2 co-worker
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 classifier: 位 wèi
同学
tóng xué
  1. 1 to study at the same school
  2. 2 fellow student
  3. 3 classmate
  4. 4 classifier: 位 wèi
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一掬同情之泪
yī jū tóng qíng zhī lèi
  1. 1 to shed tears of sympathy (idiom)
一视同仁
yī shì tóng rén
  1. 1 to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
三马同槽
sān mǎ tóng cáo
  1. 1 three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿[Sī mǎ Yì] and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof
不可同日而语
bù kě tóng rì ér yǔ
  1. 1 lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath
  2. 2 incomparable
不同凡响
bù tóng fán xiǎng
  1. 1 lit. not a common chord (idiom); outstanding
  2. 2 brilliant
  3. 3 out of the common run

Sample Sentences

那要是以后我们不能在一起了呢？要是你不爱我了，我可怎么办？网上都说了，同居是最脆弱的关系！
nà yàoshì yǐhòu wǒmen bùnéng zài yīqǐ le ne ？yàoshì nǐ bù ài wǒ le ，wǒ kě zěnme bàn ？wǎngshàng dōu shuō le ，tóngjū shì zuì cuìruò de guānxi ！
Well, then what if afterwards we can't be together anymore? What if you don't love me anymore? What will I do? All over the internet, people say that living together before marriage creates a really fragile situation.
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这怎么是随便呢。我们反正会结婚的，先同居一段时间再结婚，也是对将来的婚姻负责嘛！
zhè zěnme shì suíbiàn ne 。wǒmen fǎnzhèng huì jiéhūn de ，xiān tóngjū yī duàn shíjiān zài jiéhūn ，yě shì duì jiānglái de hūnyīn fùzé ma ！
How is that casual? Either way we're going to get married. Living together for a bit first and then getting married is a way of being responsible towards marriage!
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这不合适吧，我们还没结婚呢！现在就同居，好像太随便了。
zhè bù héshì ba ，wǒmen hái méi jiéhūn ne ！xiànzài jiù tóngjū ，hǎoxiàng tài suíbiàn le 。
But it's not appropriate. We're not married yet! If we live together now, it's like we're being too casual.
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对，我们同居吧。这样就能朝夕相处了。我想每天早上一睁开眼睛，就能看到心爱的你在身边。
duì ，wǒmen tóngjū ba 。zhèyàng jiù néng zhāoxīxiāngchǔ le 。wǒ xiǎng měitiān zǎoshang yī zhēngkāi yǎnjing ，jiù néng kàndào xīn\'ài de nǐ zài shēnbiān 。
Yeah, let's live together now. That way we can be together all the time. Every morning when I open my eyes, I want to see you, my true love, right by my side.
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搬到一起住？你的意思是，同居？
bān dào yīqǐ zhù ？nǐ de yìsi shì ，tóngjū ？
Move in together? You mean live together before we get married?
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可是，要是被我父母知道我们未婚同居，他们非打死我不可。
kěshì ，yàoshì bèi wǒ fùmǔ zhīdào wǒmen wèihūn tóngjū ，tāmen fēi dǎsǐ wǒ bùkě 。
But, if my parents find out we're living together before we're married, they'll kill me.
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