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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「同甘共苦」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「同甘共苦」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Gan: sweet. Share happiness and share hardships.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tóng gān gòng kǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tung4 gam1 gung6 fu2

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