同是天涯沦落人
tóng​shì​tiān​yá​lún​luò​rén

fellow sufferers

  • created sense approved 同是天涯沦落人/同是天涯淪落人 · tóng​shì​tiān​yá​lún​luò​rén · fellow sufferers — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    同是天涯沦落人 / 同是天涯淪落人

    tóng​shì​tiān​yá​lún​luò​rén

    fellow sufferers

    People who are both drifting or living in exile far from home, or who share the same unfortunate fate; often used to express a bond between strangers who have faced similar hardships

    同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · same 是 (literal) → 是 · shì · to be 天涯 (literal) → 天涯 · tiān​yá · far corners of the earth 沦落 (literal) → 沦落/淪落 · lún​luò · to be stranded 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · person of a type

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

    created sense