也 (yě)
Also; too.
How 也 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 乚 — second
- Traditional
- 也
- Simplified
- 也 (unchanged)
Components
- 乚 second
- ㇆ N/A
- 丨 line
Common words using 也
- 也許 yěxǔ
- perhaps; maybe
- 之乎者也 zhīhūzhěyě
- four common characters of classical Chinese (idiom); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk; double Dutch; all Greek to me
- 也就是說 yějiùshìshuō
- in other words; that is to say; so
- 也罷 yěbà
- (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
- 也門 yěmén
- Yemen
- 空空如也 kōngkōngrúyě
- as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous
- 維也納 wéiyěnà
- Vienna, capital of Austria
也 in a sentence
我也是台灣人。
Wǒ yě shì Táiwānrén.
“I am also Taiwanese.”
How common is 也?
也 is the 31st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 24.4% of all running text.
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