患难之交
Traditional form:
患難之交
Pinyin (reading):
huànnànzhījiāo
Definitions:
- a friend in times of tribulations (idiom); a friend in need is a friend indeed
Characters:
- 患 - suffering; misfortune; trouble; to suffer
- 难 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix
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