无异于

無異於
wúyì yú
phrase #31,472

Meanings

  1. 1 to be no different from
  2. 2 to amount to
  3. 3 to be tantamount to

Examples

Zhèyàng zuò wúyì yú zìshā.
Doing this is no different from suicide.
Tā de chénmò wúyì yú mòrèn.
His silence amounts to tacit consent.

Tips

usage
无异于 is bookish/formal — used in editorials, essays, and serious speech to deliver a strong rhetorical equivalence: action X is 'no different from' a more dramatic outcome Y. Compare colloquial 等于 (děngyú, 'equals to') and ...一样 (gēn...yīyàng, 'same as').
grammar
Structure: [subject/action] + 无异于 + [stronger comparison]. The here is the classical preposition 'with respect to / from'. Literally 'have-no-difference-from'.

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