一いち蓮れん托たく生しょう

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Meanings

noun

sharing one's fate; being in the same boat

yojijukugo (four-character idiom)

A yojijukugo expressing the idea that two or more people are bound together in the same situation, for better or worse. Often used in serious or dramatic contexts.

私わたしたちは一いち蓮れん托たく生しょうだ。成せい功こうも失しっ敗ぱいも共ともにしよう。
We are in the same boat. Let's share both success and failure.
このプロジェクトは一いち蓮れん托たく生しょうの関かん係けいだから、全ぜん員いんで協きょう力りょくしなければならない。
This project is a shared-fate relationship, so everyone must cooperate.

Kanji

一one, one radical (no.1)
蓮lotus
托requesting, entrusting with, pretend
生life, genuine, birth
連take along, lead, join
託consign, requesting, entrusting with

Related words

運うん命めい共きょう同どう体たい
運命共同体 is a more formal, often political or organizational term for a community bound by a common destiny, while 一蓮托生 is a more dramatic, personal expression of shared fate.
同どう舟しゅう相あい救すくう
同舟相救う is a proverb meaning 'people in the same boat help each other,' focusing on mutual aid, whereas 一蓮托生 emphasizes the inseparability of fates.

Written forms

一いち蓮れん托たく生しょう
Standard kanji spelling for this yojijukugo.
一いち連れん托たく生しょう
irregular kanji usage
Irregular kanji variant using 連 instead of 蓮.
一いち蓮れん託たく生しょう
irregular kanji usage
Irregular kanji variant using 託 instead of 托.

Etymology

A Buddhist expression referring to being reborn together upon the same lotus in the Pure Land. It later acquired the broader sense of sharing the same fate.