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)
simp. (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 9th century.

》《》,太史子雲相如同工異曲
》《》,太史子云相如同工异曲
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


Idiom

同工異曲

  1. synonym of 異曲同工 / 异曲同工 (yìqǔtónggōng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (同工異曲):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
どう
Grade: 2
こう
Grade: 2

Grade: 6
きょく
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(どう)(こう)()(きょく) (dōkōikyoku

  1. different approaches but equally satisfactory results