患难之交 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 患難之交 huànnànzhījiāo ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄋㄢˋ ㄓ ㄐㄧㄠ a friend in times of tribulations (idiom) a friend in need is a friend indeed Character by character 患(huàn)suffer 难(nàn)disaster 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 交(jiāo)hand over A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0