如出一辙

如出一轍

rúchūyīzhé

idiom #22,615

Meanings

1 exactly alike
2 as if from the same mold
3 identical in every way

Characters

to come out; to emerge

wheel rut; track

Examples

这两件案子的作案手法如出一辙。

Zhè liǎng jiàn ànzi de zuòàn shǒufǎ rúchūyīzhé.

The methods used in these two cases were identical.

他父子两人的性格如出一辙。

Tā fùzǐ liǎng rén de xìnggé rúchūyīzhé.

Father and son have exactly the same personality.

Tips

memory

辙 is a wheel rut (track left in the ground). 如出一辙 = as if coming from the same wheel track — two things so alike they could have been made by the same wheel rolling through the same mud.

Stroke Order

如 rú

出 chū

一 yī

辙 zhé