兔死狐悲
tù​sǐ​hú​bēi

to feel sympathy for a peer's misfortune

  • created sense approved 兔死狐悲 · tù​sǐ​hú​bēi · to feel sympathy for a peer's misfortune — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    兔死狐悲

    tù​sǐ​hú​bēi

    to feel sympathy for a peer's misfortune

    literally 'when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves'; describes feeling sorrow for the death or misfortune of one's own kind or a like-minded person

    兔 (literal) → 兔 · tù · rabbit 死 (literal) → 死 · sǐ · to die 狐 (literal) → 狐 · hú · fox 悲 (literal) → 悲 · bēi · sad

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense