bēi

idiom
common

Meaning of 兔死狐悲

兔死狐悲 means to grieve when one's own kind suffers; to feel sad at the death or misfortune of a companion or peer. Pronounced tù sǐ hú bēi.

  • to grieve when one's own kind suffers; to feel sad at the death or misfortune of a companion or peer

Definitions & Examples

Kàn
dào
tóng
shì
bèi
cái
yuán
 
jīn
yǒu
bēi
zhī
gǎn
 

Seeing his colleague get laid off, he couldn't help feeling sadness for his own kind.

Tīng
dào
gōng
dǎo
de
xiāo
xi
 
men
dōu
yǒu
zhǒng
bēi
de
gǎn
kǎi
 

Hearing the news that the company next door went bankrupt, we all felt a sense of 'when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves'.

bēi
 
shāng
lèi
 
kàn
dào
tóng
háng
de
gōng
dǎo
 
jīn
dān
xīn
de
qián
 

When the rabbit dies the fox grieves, when one thing is injured its kind is hurt—seeing companies in the same industry close down one by one, he couldn't help worrying about his own future.

Suī
shì
jìng
zhēng
duì
shǒu
 
dàn
duì
fāng
chǎn
de
xiāo
xi
chuán
lái
 
hái
shì
gǎn
dào
bēi
 

Although they were competitors, when news came that the other party had gone bankrupt, he still felt the sadness of 'when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves'.