yě
also
Original meaning:
cry
Depicts a child opening its mouth to cry. Original form of 嗁. The modern meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 也
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
also | ||
perhaps | ||
in other words | ||
that is | ||
Vienna, capital of Austria |
Component uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lAjʔ | yaeX | yě | (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。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.859
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