HSK 6 · Function Words

亦 yì “also” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 亦 means

  1. also
  2. too (formal)

How to say 亦

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale亦yì4th tone, falling

亦 in a sentence

  1. 盗亦有道。

    Dào yì yǒu dào.

    There is honour even among thieves.

    Sentence #533622 from Tatoeba

  2. 有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？

    Yǒu péng zì yuǎnfāng lái, bú yì lè hū?

    When a friend comes from afar, is that not delightful?

    Sentence #406455 from Tatoeba

How 亦 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 亦 (yì) drawn as one shape
亦yìalso

亦 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 亦

亦 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

亦 (yì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 亦 (yì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 亦

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未免wèimiǎn · rather务必wùbì · must无非wúfēi · nothing but要命yàomìng · terribly以便yǐbiàn · so that依旧yījiù · as before以免yǐmiǎn · so as not to迎面yíngmiàn · head-on

FAQs

亦 (yì) means “also” or “too (formal)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yì: yì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 亦 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 亦 from the suggestions. Typing yi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
亦 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.