也

See also: せ

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Uncertain. The character was once interchangeable with 它 and may have originated as a simplification.

Han character

也 (radical 5 乙+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 心木 (PD), four-corner 4471₂, composition ⿻乜丨)

Descendants

• ㄝ
• や
• ヤ

References

• KangXi: page 84, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 171
• Dae Jaweon: page 170, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 50, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E5F

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		也

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yě (ye³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jaa⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): iā
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hha (T3); hhia (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yě
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yeh³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiee
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛ²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jaa⁵
    • Yale: yáh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jaa⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jɑː¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iā
    • Tâi-lô: iā
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ia²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hha (T3); hhia (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦᴀ²³/, /ɦiᴀ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (也, reconstructed)
Character (也), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 羊者切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jiaX/	/i̯aX/	/iaX/	/jiaX/	/jiaX/	/jĭaX/	/iaX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (也, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
也								yě								‹ yæX ›								/*lAjʔ/								(final particle)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
也					14773					也					歌					1					野					/*laːlʔ/

Adverb

也

1. also; too
   • John 1.13

     这等人不是从血气生的，不是从情欲生的，也不是从人意生的，乃是从神生的。

     Zhèděng rén bùshì cóng xuèqì shēng de, bùshì cóng qíngyù shēng de, yě bùshì cóng rényì shēng de, nǎishì cóng Shén shēng de.

     Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

   我也去了。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ yě qù le. [Pinyin]

   I also went.

   我也是中國人。 [MSC, trad.]

   我也是中国人。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ yě shì zhōngguórén. [Pinyin]

   I too am Chinese/I am also Chinese.

2. (in negative sentences) neither, either

   你如果不去，我也不去。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Nǐ rúguǒ bù qù, wǒ yě bù qù. [Pinyin]

   If you don't go, I won't either.

   我也沒有看見過它。 [MSC, trad.]

   我也没有看见过它。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ yě méiyǒu kànjiàn guò tā. [Pinyin]

   I haven't seen it either.

3. (used in the 连...也/都 and 连...也/都 不如 stuctures, interchangeable with 都) (emphasis) even

   他連畜生也不如，連自己的父母也不養活。 [MSC, trad.]

   他连畜生也不如，连自己的父母也不养活。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā lián xùshēng yě bùrú, lián zìjǐ de fùmǔ yě bù yǎnghuó. [Pinyin]

   He is no better than an animal, because he doesn't even support his own parents.

See also

• (too, also): 都 (Cantonese)
• (even): 都

Particle

也

1. (classical) Emphatic final particle of strong affirmation or identity

   生而知之者，上也 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   shēng ér zhī zhī zhě, shàng yě [Pinyin]

   Those who are born with the possession of knowledge are the highest class of men.

   其西有大山，天下至高者也。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Qí xī yǒu dà shān, tiānxià zhì gāo zhě yě. [Pinyin]

   Laden with surrounding mountains, it is clearly the most supreme under heaven. (classical Chinese)

Proper noun

也

1. A surname​. Ye

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Kanji

也

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: や (ya)
• Kun: なり (nari), また (mata)

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Korean

Hanja

也 (ya)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 야 (revised: ya, McCune-Reischauer: ya)

• Name (hangeul): 이끼, 어조사 (revised: ikki, eojosa, McCune-Reischauer: ikki, ǒjosa)

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 也

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Vietnamese

Han character

也 (dã, dạ, giã)

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References

• Nom Foundation