- similar things come together (idiom); like draws like
- Birds of a feather flock together.
Characters
- 物 (物): (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
- 以 (㕥): old variant of 以[yi3]
- 类 (類): kind; type; class; category; similar; like; to resemble
- 聚 (聚): to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive); (chemistry) poly-
Resources
- Wiktionary: 物以类聚
- MDBG: 物以类聚
- Examples with 物以类聚 on Tatoeba
Examples
物以类聚。