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HSK 4
也
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
也罢
yěbà
(reduplicated) whether... or...
也许
yěxǔ
perhaps
也门
Yěmén
Yemen
再也
zàiyě
(not) any more
也就是
yějiùshì
that is
梯也尔
Tīyěěr
Adolphe Thiers
维也纳
Wéiyěnà
Vienna, capital of Austria
不提也罢
bùtíyěbà
best not to mention it
之乎者也
zhīhūzhěyě
four common characters of classical Chinese (idiom); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk
也不例外
yěbùlìwài
is no exception
也就是说
yějiùshìshuō
in other words
也有今天
yěyǒujīntiān
(coll.) to get one's just deserts
空空如也
kōngkōngrúyě
as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft
食色性也
shísèxìngyě
Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4).
躺着也中枪
tǎngzheyězhòngqiāng
(lit.) to get shot even when lying down
也好不了多少
yěhǎobuliǎoduōshǎo
hardly any better
满口之乎者也
mǎnkǒuzhīhūzhěyě
mouth full of literary phrases
也好不到哪里去
yěhǎobùdàonǎlǐqù
just as bad
来而不往非礼也
láiérbùwǎngfēilǐyě
not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical)
陀思妥也夫斯基
Tuósītuǒyěfūsījī
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment [[罪與罰|罪与罚<ZuìyǔFá>]]
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 2
- Character Frequency Rank
- 30
- Word Frequency Rank
- 28 of 84,292