- thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
- once you've seen one, you've seen them all
Characters
- 千 (千): thousand
- 篇 (篇): sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 律 (律): surname Lü
Resources
- Wiktionary: 千篇一律
- MDBG: 千篇一律
- Examples with 千篇一律 on Tatoeba
Examples
这个节目变得千篇一律。