adverb HSK 7-9 #6,497

Meanings

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

Examples

Cǐshì yì yǒu kěnéng.
This matter is also possible.
Tā yì shì zhèyàng rènwéi de.
He also thinks so.

Tips

register
is the classical/literary equivalent of (yě). 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 (yì dí yì yǒu) — '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