lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas; strange bedfellows; marital dissension
trad. 同床異夢
Also written 同床異夢【tóng chuáng yì mèng】
Characters in this word
4同
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like, same, similar, together, alike, with
- Pinyin
- tóng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1548 of 2500
床
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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
- Pinyin
- chuáng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 2406 of 2500
异
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different, other, hetero-, unusual, strange, surprising, to distinguish, to separate, to discriminate
- Pinyin
- yì
- Traditional
- 異
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 25120 of 2500
梦
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dream (CL:場|场[chang2]), (bound form) to dream
- Pinyin
- mèng
- Traditional
- 夢
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 1219 of 2500