相异

相異

xiāngyì

adjective

Meanings

Liǎng rén guāndiǎn xiāngyì, zhēnglùn bùxiū.

The two had differing views and argued endlessly.

Nán běi fāng yǐnshí xíguàn xiāngyì.

Eating habits in the north and south differ.

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

memory

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

相 xiāng

异 yì