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而已
ér​yǐ HSK7

that's all

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
而已 ér​yǐ
that's all modal particle
nothing more; merely; only

他只是在开玩笑而已。

tā zhǐ​shì zài kāi wán​xiào ér​yǐ.

He is just joking, that's all.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
160.6 per million appears in 45% of films
Written text
59.7 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)