一贯 | yī guàn | consistent / constant / from start to finish / all along / persistent | |
相容 | xiāng róng | compatible / consistent / to tolerate (each other) | |
如一 | rú yī | consistent / the same / unvarying | |
圆 | yuán | circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | |
自圆其说 | zì yuán qí shuō | to make a story or theory consistent / to give a plausible explanation / to plug the holes in one's story | |
一致字 | yī zhì zì | (orthography) consistent words (e.g. "dean", "bean", and "lean", where "-ean" is pronounced the same in each case) / consistent characters (e.g. 搖|摇[yao2], 遙|遥[yao2] and 謠|谣[yao2], which share a phonetic component that reliably indicates that the pronunciation of the character is yáo) | |
自洽 | zì qià | logically consistent / to make sense |