同工異曲

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。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]

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下逮《庄》《骚》，太史所录，子云相如，同工异曲。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

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. [Pinyin]

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 ㄍㄨㄥ ㄧˋ ㄑㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ gung¹ ji⁶ kuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tónggōngyìqǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄧˋ 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

1. 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): [do̞ːko̞ːikʲo̞kɯ̟]

Noun

同(どう)工(こう)異(い)曲(きょく) • (dōkōikyoku) 

1. different approaches but equally satisfactory results