雷同
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Meanings
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- 1.mirroring others
- 2.identical
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- 1.to be identical (when that should not be the case); to mirror each other; to resemble
- 2.to echo what others say; to parrot
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Etymology
The Eastern Han Confucian scholar Zheng Xuan (鄭玄), in his annotations to the Book of Rites (《禮記》), derived the meaning as "to echo each other [同 (OC *doːŋ)] in the manner of thunder [雷 (OC *ruːl)]", writing that "when a thunderclap strikes, all things resonate (with it) simultaneously" (「雷之發聲，物無不同時應者。」). The original text so commented upon, referring to the proper etiquette when receiving a lecture from an elder, reads
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