如出一辙

如出一轍

rúchū-yìzhé

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

HSK 4

他父子两人的性格如出一辙。

Tā fùzǐ liǎng rén de xìnggé rúchū-yìzhé.

Father and son have exactly the same personality.

HSK 6

这两件案子的作案手法如出一辙。

Zhè liǎng jiàn ànzi de zuò'àn shǒufǎ rúchū-yìzhé.

The methods used in these two cases were identical.

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