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Definition(s) for: 同床异梦

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
同床异梦 tóng chuáng yì mèng - lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas
- strange bedfellows
- marital dissension

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Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 50,901 81,329 57,112

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
tóng- like
- same
- similar
- together
- alike
- with
tòng- see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
chuáng- bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张[zhang1])
- bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc)
- frame; chassis
- classifier for blankets, quilts etc
chuáng- variant of 床[chuang2]
- different
- other
- hetero-
- unusual
- strange
- surprising
- to distinguish
- to separate
- to discriminate
mèng- dream (CL:場|场[chang2],個|个[ge4])
- (bound form) to dream

Other Words Containing 同床异梦

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
同床异梦 - - 50,901 81,329 57,112