求同存异
Traditional form:
求同存異
Pinyin (reading):
qiútóngcúnyì
Definitions:
- (idiom) to put aside differences and work together; to seek common ground and cooperate
Characters:
- 求 - to seek; to request, to demand; to beseech, to beg for
- 同 - same, similar; together with, alike
- 存 - to exist; to survive, to maintain; to keep, to store; to deposit
- 异 - different, strange, unusual; foreign; surprising
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