同病相怜 (同病相憐)
tóng bìng xiāng lián
Pinyin

Definition

同病相怜 (同病相憐)
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tóng bìng xiāng lián
  1. fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

不同
bù tóng
  1. 1 different
  2. 2 distinct
  3. 3 not the same
  4. 4 not alike
互相
hù xiāng
  1. 1 each other
  2. 2 mutually
  3. 3 mutual
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

Idioms (20)

一掬同情之泪
yī jū tóng qíng zhī lèi
  1. 1 to shed tears of sympathy (idiom)
一病不起
yī bìng bù qǐ
  1. 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
一脉相承
yī mài xiāng chéng
  1. 1 traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
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

Sample Sentences

咱俩真是同病相怜！要么我们租吧！
zánliǎ zhēn shì tóngbìngxiānglián ！yàome wǒmen zū ba ！
So the two of us are in the same boat! Let's rent one!
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别这样说。我们是同病相怜。说是帮你，其实是在帮我自己。早点找到健明我也可以早点见到我女朋友。不说了，我先去了。
bié zhèyàng shuō 。wǒmen shì tóngbìngxiānglián 。shuō shì bāng nǐ ，qíshí shì zài bāng wǒ zìjǐ 。zǎo diǎn zhǎodào Jiànmíng wǒ yě kěyǐ zǎo diǎn jiàndào wǒ nǚpéngyou 。bù shuō le ，wǒ xiān qù le 。
Don't say that. We're both in the same boat. You say I'm helping you, but actually I'm helping myself. The sooner we find Jianming, the sooner I can also see my girlfriend. Enough talk, I'm going to get going.
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