雷 léi
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 雨 — rain
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
雷同
léitóng
to be identical or overly similar
Characters in this word
同 tóng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 两份方案在核心表述上高度雷同，评审怀疑其中一方存在抄袭。 Liǎng fèn fāng'àn zài héxīn biǎoshù shàng gāodù léitóng, píngshěn huáiyí qízhōng yì fāng cúnzài chāoxí. The two proposals are highly similar in their core wording, leading the reviewers to suspect that one side plagiarised the other.
- 这两篇文章内容雷同，老师怀疑是抄的。 Zhè liǎng piān wénzhāng nèiróng léitóng, lǎoshī huáiyí shì chāo de. These two essays are so similar in content that the teacher suspects copying.
- 现在的很多广告都很雷同，没有新意。 Xiànzài de hěn duō guǎnggào dōu hěn léitóng, méiyǒu xīnyì. Many ads these days are all alike and lack originality.