无异于

無異於
wúyìyú
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 wúyìyú zìshā.
Doing this is no different from suicide.
Tā de chénmò wúyìyú 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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