同工異曲

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Chinese

		like; same; similar like; same; similar; together; alike; with	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour	different; unusual; strange	tune; song; bent tune; song; bent; crooked; wrong
trad. (同工異曲)		同	工	異	曲
simp. (同工异曲)		同	工	异	曲
anagram		異曲同工／异曲同工

Etymology

Coined by Han Yu in An Explication of “Progress in Learning” in the 9^th century.

下逮《莊》《騷》，太史所錄，子雲相如，同工異曲。

下逮《庄》《骚》，太史所录，子云相如，同工异曲。

From: c. 812~813, Han Yu, 《進學解》, translated by Charles Hartman

Xià dài “Zhuāng” “Sāo”, tàishǐ suǒ lù, Zǐyún Xiàngrú, tóng gōng yì qǔ.

Your later models are Chuang Tzu and Encountering Sorrows and what the Grand Historian recorded; then Yang Hsiung and Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, all skilled alike, yet each in a separate norm.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tónggōngyìqǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄥㄧˋ ㄑㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ gung¹ ji⁶ kuk¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tónggōngyìqǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄥㄧˋ ㄑㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tónggongyìcyǔ
  - Wade–Giles: tʻung²-kung¹-i⁴-chʻü³
  - Yale: túng-gūng-yì-chyǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tornggongyihcheu
  - Palladius: тунгунъицюй (tungunʺicjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵ i⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tung⁴ gung¹ ji⁶ kuk¹
  - Yale: tùhng gūng yih kūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ gung¹ ji⁶ kuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ gung¹ yi⁶ kug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ jiː²² kʰʊk̚⁵/

Idiom

同工異曲

synonym of 異曲同工 / 异曲同工 (yìqǔtónggōng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (同工異曲):

→ Japanese: 同工異曲(どうこういきょく) (dōkōikyoku)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
同	工	異	曲
どう Grade: 2	こう Grade: 2	い Grade: 6	きょく Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

同(どう)工(こう)異(い)曲(きょく) • (dōkōikyoku)

different approaches but equally satisfactory results

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