也
yěYě HSK1

also

也 yě frequency
also adverb
used to indicate similarity or addition; too, as well, or either (in negative sentences)

我也是一名学生。

wǒ yě shì yī míng xué​sheng.

I am also a student.

even adverb
used for emphasis to indicate an extreme or unexpected case, often in the '连 lián...也...' construction

他连水也不喝一口。

tā lián shuǐ yě bù hē yī kǒu.

He wouldn't even drink a sip of water.

literary particle modal particle
classical Chinese sentence-final particle used for emphasis, explanation, or to mark a pause

此之谓也。

cǐ zhī wèi yě.

This is what it means.

也 Yě
Ye proper name
surname Ye

也先生是我们的新老师。

Yě xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de xīn lǎo​shī.

Mr. Ye is our new teacher.

Frequency
Character
Written text
31st most common 3670.5 per million
Movie subtitles
51st most common 3414.2 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3928.9 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
4103.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+4E5F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)