IDENTITY
也yěalso; too
HSK 1Top 40
CORE MEANING
also; too
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.also; tooHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 乙second radical (yǐ)
- strokes
- 3
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- 也
USAGE
Common words
也是yě shìalso is
也许yěxǔmaybe
Graded examples
他也喜欢音乐。Tā yě xǐhuan yīnyuè.HSK1
He also likes music.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
The old picture of a washing basin — its form borrowed for “also”.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #40
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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