同情

Meaning(verb, verbal noun)

to sympathize with; sympathy

Examples

• 大家都很同情他的遭遇。

  dà jiā dōu hěn tóng qíng tā de zāo yù.

  Everyone sympathizes with what happened to him.

• 我不需要你的同情。

  wǒ bù xū yào nǐ de tóng qíng.

  I don't need your sympathy.

• 看到那只小狗，她很同情。

  kàn dào nà zhī xiǎo gǒu, tā hěn tóng qíng.

  Seeing that puppy, she felt very sorry for it.

Easily confused

• 同意 — False friend: Vietnamese "đồng tình" means "agree" (= 同意), but 同情 means "sympathize".

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