也

also, too

No. 38 most used · 0.40% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 250.

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

Once a drawing, now only "also". Learn it with 我也是, me too.

Words

• 也许

  yě xǔ

  perhaps; maybe
• 再也

  zài yě

  (not) ever again; (not) any longer
• 也好

  yě hǎo

  that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
• 也就是说

  yě jiù shì shuō

  in other words; that is to say; so

Sentences

• 今天也是我的生日。

  jīn tiān yě shì wǒ de shēng rì

  Today is my birthday, too.
• 他在日本也很有名。

  tā zài rì běn yě hěn yǒu míng

  He is also very famous in Japan.
• 你也是学生不是吗？

  nǐ yě shì xué sheng bú shì ma

  You're a student, too, aren't you?
• 其实，他也爱着她。

  qí shí tā yě ài zhe tā

  In fact, he too loved her.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.