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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

情同手足

qíngtóngshǒuzú

as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers

02

deep friendship

03

closely attached to one another

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 情同手足 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 情同手足 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我们情同手足。wǒ men qíng tóng shǒu zú。

No published English translation for this sentence.

人各赋有理性良知,诚应和睦相处,情同手足。rén gè fù yǒu lǐ xìng liáng zhī, chéng yìng hè mù xiāng chǔ, qíng tóng shǒu zú。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 情同手足.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 情同手足.

Directly before

  • 我们情同手足1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 情同手足

What does 情同手足 mean in Chinese?

情同手足 (qíngtóngshǒuzú) means as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers.

How do you pronounce 情同手足?

情同手足 is pronounced qíngtóngshǒuzú.

Is 情同手足 an HSK word?

情同手足 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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