# 同年而語
## Chinese

| | | of the same age; of the same year | and; as well as; but (not)and; as well as; but (not); yet (not); (shows causal relation); (shows change of state); (shows contrast) | speech; language; dialectspeech; language; dialect; tell to |
| trad. (同年而語) | trad. (同年而語) | 同年 | 而 | 語 |
| simp. (同年而语) | simp. (同年而语) | 同年 | 而 | 语 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tóngnián'éryǔ
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄦˊ ㄩˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tung$^4$ nin$^4$ ji$^4$ jyu$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tóngnián'éryǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄦˊ ㄩˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tóngnián-éryǔ
*** Wade–Giles: tʻung$^2$-nien$^2$-êrh$^2$-yü$^3$
*** Yale: túng-nyán-ér-yǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngnianerlyeu
*** Palladius: тунняньэрюй (tunnjanʹerjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰʊŋ³⁵ ni̯ɛn³⁵ ˀɤɻ³⁵ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tung$^4$ nin$^4$ ji$^4$ jyu$^5$
*** Yale: tùhng nìhn yìh yúh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tung$^4$ nin$^4$ ji$^4$ jy$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tung$^4$ nin$^4$ yi$^4$ yu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰʊŋ²¹ niːn²¹ jiː²¹ jyː¹³/
* Middle Chinese: duwng nen nyi ngjoX
Rime :
| Character | 同 | 年 | 而 | 語 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 泥 (8) | 日 (38) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 東 (1) | 先 (85) | 之 (19) | 魚 (22) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | IV | III | III |
| Fanqie | 徒紅切 | 奴顚切 | 如之切 | 魚巨切 |
| Baxter | duwng | nen | nyi | ngjoX |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /duŋ/ | /nen/ | /ȵɨ/ | /ŋɨʌ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /duŋ/ | /nen/ | /ȵɨ/ | /ŋiɔ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /duŋ/ | /nɛn/ | /ȵʑie/ | /ŋiɔ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dəwŋ/ | /nɛn/ | /ȵɨ/ | /ŋɨə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /duŋ/ | /nen/ | /ȵiə/ | /ŋiɔ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /duŋ/ | /nien/ | /ȵʑĭə/ | /ŋĭo$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /dʱuŋ/ | /nien/ | /ȵʑi/ | /ŋi̯wo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | tóng | nián | ér | yǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tung$^4$ | nin$^4$ | ji$^4$ | jyu$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤoŋ C.nˤi[ŋ] nə ŋ(r)aʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ niːŋ njɯ ŋaʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 同 | 年 | 而 | 語 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tóng | nián | ér | yǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ duwng › | ‹ nen › | ‹ nyi › | ‹ ngjo$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*lˁoŋ/ | /*C.nˁi[ŋ]/ | /*nə/ | /*ŋ(r)aʔ/ |
| English | together, join | harvest; year | and, but | speak |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 同 | 年 | 而 | 語 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| No. | 12446 | 9482 | 2720 | 13159 |
| Phonetic component | 同 | 秊 | 而 | 五 |
| Rime group | 東 | 眞 | 之 | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 同 | | 而 | 語 |
| Old Chinese | /*doːŋ/ | /*niːŋ/ | /*njɯ/ | /*ŋaʔ/ |
| Notes | 甲金文象有節筒管與口協合， 如此方能音律諧和， 爲筒（簫）初文 | 同秊 | | |

### Idiom

同年而語
* to mention things on equal terms

#### Usage notes

Usually used with a negation.

#### Synonyms

* 同日而語／同日而语 (tóngrì'éryǔ)
* 相提並論／相提并论 (xiāngtíbìnglùn)

#### Derived terms

* 不可同年而語／不可同年而语 (bùkě tóngnián'éryǔ)