How to Say “Same same” in Thai
เหมือนกัน
mɨ̌an-kan
Same same
ค่ะ and ครับ are polite particles — they depend on the speaker's gender, not the listener's.
When to use it
เหมือน (mǔuan) means "same/similar," กัน (gan) means "each other/together." The phrase เหมือนกัน is the Thai behind the famous "same same" tourist phrase — though Thais themselves say เหมือนกัน, not the English loanback. เหมือนกันเลย (mǔuan-gan-ləəy) means "exactly the same."
Why you've seen it spelled differently
You may have seen เหมือนกัน written as: muean gan, muen kan, muean-gan.
There is no single standard for writing Thai in the Roman alphabet — phrasebooks, road signs, and tourist guides each follow a different system, and many just invent their own spellings. The romanization on this page uses a consistent IPA-based system that marks all five tones and distinguishes short from long vowels. The same word always gets the same spelling. Paste any Thai to see it romanized →
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