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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Han character

(radical 5 +2, 3 strokes, cangjie input (PD), four-corner 44712)

1. too; also
  • Example: 。 (I too am Chinese/I am also Chinese. In Standard Vernacular Chinese)
2. classical final particle of strong affirmation or identity
  • Example: 西。 (Laden with surrounding mountains, it is clearly the most supreme under heaven. In Classical Chinese)

[edit] Descendants

[edit] 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale ya5)


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Eumhun:

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

[edit] References


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adjective

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin )

  1. also; too

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (ye3), Wade-Giles yeh3)


[edit] Middle Chinese

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()


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(, dạ, giã)