also

Original meaning: 

cry

Depicts a child opening its mouth to cry. Original form of . The modern meaning is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

也 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
也 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
也 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
也 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

also; classical final particle of strong affirmation or identity; too; (in Classical Chinese) final particle implying affirmation

 

surname Ye

Most common words with 也
Freq.
Word
Meaning

also

也许

perhaps

也就是说

in other words

也就是

that is

维也纳

Vienna, capital of Austria

Component uses

Sound component in 12 characters (5 verified)

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lAjʔ

yaeX

(final particle)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9199% of movies

51st most common character in movies

31st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+4E5F

Shuowen

“也,女陰也。象形。,秦刻石也字。”


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