The phrase "诸如此类" (zhū rú cǐ lèi) is a classical Chinese idiomatic expression formed through a concise syntactic structure where "诸" (all, various) serves as a collective pronoun, "如" (like) introduces a comparison, "此" (this) provides a specific example, and "类" (category/kind) generalizes it, collectively meaning "all things of this kind" or "and so on". It functions as a fixed four-character pattern that succinctly encapsulates the rhetorical move of citing a representative instance ("this") to stand for an entire similar category ("all such things"), thereby allowing for economical expression without enumerating every item in a list.