大同小異

See also: 大同小异

Chinese

Great Unity
 
small; tiny; few; young
different; unusual; strange
trad. (大同小異) 大同
simp. (大同小异) 大同
Literally: “largely the same (with only) minor differences”.

Etymology

From the book Zhuangzi.

Pronunciation


Idiom

大同小異

  1. almost the same; almost identical; similar in most respects

Japanese

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 1
どう
Grade: 2
しょう
Grade: 1

Grade: 6
on’yomi

Adjectival noun

大同小異 (-na inflection, hiragana だいどうしょうい, rōmaji daidōshōi)

  1. almost the same, not much difference

Inflection

Noun

大同小異 (hiragana だいどうしょうい, rōmaji daidōshōi)

  1. being practically the same

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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