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一丘之貉

yī qiū zhī hé

4-character word

What 一丘之貉 means

1. jackals of the same tribe (idiom); fig. They are all just as bad as each other.

The characters in 一丘之貉

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 丘qiūmound; hillock; grave
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 貉héraccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan…

Example sentences

• 咱俩是一丘之貉。
  We're birds of a feather.
• 咱俩也就是一丘之貉。
  Zánliǎ yějiùshì yīqiūzhīhé.
  Apparently we're just two peas in a pod.