相异

相異

xiāngyì

adjective

Meanings

HSK 5

南北方饮食习惯相异。

Nánběi fāng yǐnshí xíguàn xiāngyì.

Eating habits in the north and south differ.

HSK 7-9

两人观点相异，争论不休。

Liǎng rén guāndiǎn xiāngyì, zhēnglùnbùxiū.

The two had differing views and argued endlessly.

相异 is bookish - common in academic writing, math (集合相异 'sets are distinct'), and formal contrasts. Spoken Mandarin uses 不同 instead.

memory

相 = 'mutually / each other' + 异 = 'different'. So 相异 = 'differ from each other', the inverse of 相同 ('the same as each other').

相 xiāng

异 yì