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大同小異

简 大同小异 · 繁 大同小異
Mandarin · pinyin dà tóng xiǎo yì

Meanings

  1. virtually the same
  2. differing only on small points
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Characters in this entry

大
dà · big, great, vast, large, high
同
tóng · same, similar; together with
小
xiǎo · small, tiny, insignificant
異
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异
yì · different, unusual, strange
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Mandarin tones

4–2–3–4 · da4 tong2 xiao3 yi4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daai6 tung4 siu2 ji6

Cantonese word readings for 大同小異. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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daai6 tung4 siu2 ji6

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phrase

  1. (idiomatic) almost the same; almost identical; similar in most respects

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