adverb HSK 7-9 #6,497

Meanings

  1. 1 also
  2. 2 too
  3. 3 likewise

Examples

HSK 2
Tā yì shì zhèyàng rènwéi de.
He also thinks so.
HSK 4
Cǐ shì yì yǒu kěnéng.
This matter is also possible.

Tips

register
is the classical/literary equivalent of . It appears in formal writing, classical texts, and set phrases but is rarely used in everyday speech.
usage
Common in the construction ...... meaning 'both...and...', as in 亦敌亦友 - 'both enemy and friend'.

Components

radical
tóu
lid radical; top mark
Xinhua indexes under the (lid) radical, picking the dot-and-horizontal cap as the anchor. The lid sits above the person-figure below; in the original pictograph the cap was the head and the lower strokes marked the two armpits - the original meaning being 'armpit'.
pictograph
xiǎo
lower body strokes (fused)
The lower four strokes have fused into a non-decomposable splayed-figure unit. They originally depicted a person's outstretched arms with two dots marking the armpits - the original meaning of before it was borrowed for the function word 'also, too'.

Stroke Order