同病相怜 — Chinese idiom
同病相怜
tóng bìng xiāng lián
Traditional: 同病相憐
Meaning
- fellow sufferers empathize with each other ; misery loves company
Character by character
- 同tóngsame, similar; together with, alike
- 病bìngsickness, illness, disease
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 怜liánto pity, to sympathize with
Idioms sharing a character
- 一视同仁 yī shì tóng rén
- 不同凡响 bù tóng fán xiǎng
- 不敢苟同 bù gǎn gǒu tóng
- 不约而同 bù yuē ér tóng
- 公诸同好 gōng zhū tóng hào
- 同仇敌忾 tóng chóu dí kài
- 同室操戈 tóng shì cāo gē
- 同床异梦 tóng chuáng yì mèng
- 同心协力 tóng xīn xié lì
- 同心同德 tóng xīn tóng dé
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