互通有无 — Chinese idiom
互通有无
hù tōng yǒu wú
Traditional: 互通有無
Meaning
- mutual exchange of assistance; to benefit from each other's strengths and make up each other's shortfalls; to reciprocate with material assistance; to scratch each other's back
Character by character
- 互hùmutually, reciprocally
- 通tōngto pass through, to open, to connect; to communica
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
Idioms sharing a character
- 互为因果 hù wéi yīn guǒ
- 互相推诿 hù xiāng tuī wěi
- 互诉衷肠 hù sù zhōng cháng
- 一窍不通 yī qiào bù tōng
- 一通百通 yī tōng bǎi tōng
- 串通一气 chuàn tōng yī qì
- 半通不通 bàn tōng bù tōng
- 博识多通 bó shí duō tōng
- 四通八达 sì tōng bā dá
- 官运亨通 guān yùn hēng tōng
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