也 — Chinese character

也

yě

also, too

Pinyin: yě
Radical: 5 ⼄ (Second)
Strokes: 3
Components: 乚
Japanese: 也 as a kanji

Common words with 也

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
也许 (也許)	yě xǔ	perhaps; maybe
再也	zài yě	(not) ever again; (not) any longer
也就是说 (也就是說)	yě jiù shì shuō	in other words; that is to say
也好	yě hǎo	that's fine; may as well
也罢 (也罷)	yě bà	(reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind
空空如也	kōng kōng rú yě	as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing
不提也罢 (不提也罷)	bù tí yě bà	best not to mention it; drop it
之乎者也	zhī hū zhě yě	(lit.) 之 (zhī), 乎 (hū), 者 (zhě) and 也 (yě) (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); (fig.) archaic expressions
食色性也	shí sè xìng yě	Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4).; By nature we desire food and sex.
也就是	yě jiù shì	in other words; i.e.
也有今天	yě yǒu jīn tiān	(coll.) to get one's just deserts; to serve sb right
想也没想 (想也沒想)	xiǎng yě méi xiǎng	without a second thought

English words written with 也

也 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 13 · Analects 532 · Art of War 194 · Mencius 1229 · Zhuangzi 1683 · Great Learning 30 · Doctrine of the Mean 126

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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