亦 — Chinese character

亦

yì

also, too; likewise

Pinyin: yì
Radical: 8 ⼇ (Lid)
Strokes: 6
Components: 亠
Formation: ideographic — A man standing with arrows pointing to his armpits
Japanese: 亦 as a kanji

Common words with 亦

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
不亦乐乎 (不亦樂乎)	bù yì lè hū	lit. isn't that a joy? (quote from Confucius); fig. (jocular) extremely; awfully
反之亦然	fǎn zhī yì rán	vice versa
人云亦云	rén yún yì yún	to say what everyone says (idiom); to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view
亦步亦趋 (亦步亦趨)	yì bù yì qū	to blindly follow suit (idiom); to imitate slavishly
亦且	yì qiě	variant of 抑且 (yì qiě)
不亦	bù yì	(literary) isn't it truly …?; how … it is!
亦作	yì zuò	also written as
亦即	yì jí	namely; that is
亦或	yì huò	or
亦敌亦友 (亦敵亦友)	yì dí yì yǒu	(idiom) to be both friend and foe to each other; to have a friendly rivalry
亦称 (亦稱)	yì chēng	also known as; alternative name

亦 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 13 · Analects 47 · Art of War 2 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 111 · Zhuangzi 148 · Great Learning 5 · Doctrine of the Mean 6

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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