同病相怜 / 同病相憐

tóng​bìng​xiāng​lián

misery loves company

fellow sufferers empathize with each other; to sympathize with those who have shared the same misfortune or illness

同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · same 病 (literal) → 病 · bìng · illness 相 (literal) → 相 · xiāng · mutually 怜 (literal) → 怜/憐 · lián · to pity

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

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM