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也 yě

  1. yě adverb also
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
    Notes: For example, 他不吃饭，也不睡觉 'He does not eat and he also does not sleep.' (Ye Shengtao, 1999, p. 4)
  2. yě particle a final modal particle indicating certainy or decision
    Domain: Classical Chinese 古文
    Notes: The particle 也 marks a noun predicate with a continuing state in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 114). For example, 未有仁而遺其親者也 'There never has been a benevolent man who neglected his parents.' (Mengzi: 1.1/1/8, translation by Legge)

Contained in

也门 、 也门里亚尔 、 也许 、 既_也_ 、 一_也_ 、 就是_也_ 、 维也纳 、 维也纳大学

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CollectionDocument TitleOccurrences
Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean 519
Shuo Wen Jie Zi 《說文解字》 《卷七‧木部》 Scroll 7, Mù Radical 361
Shuo Wen Jie Zi 《說文解字》 《卷十二‧水部》 Scroll 12, Shuǐ Radical 352
Shuo Wen Jie Zi 《說文解字》 《艸部》 Cǎo Radical 350
Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 《盡心章句下》 Commentary on Jin Xin II 323
Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 《公孫丑章句上》 Commentary on Gong Sun Chou I 323
Er Ya 《爾雅》 《釋言》 Explanation of Words 308
Shuo Wen Jie Zi 《說文解字》 《手部》 Shǒu Radical 307
Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 《盡心章句上》 Commentary on Jin Xin I 302
Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹《四書章句集注》 《梁惠王章句下》 Commentary on Liang Hui Wang II 301

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ExampleSourceOccurrences
其為人也孝弟 1. 《學而》 Xue Er in The Analects of Confucius 《論語》 14
何謂也 2. 《為政》 Wei Zheng in The Analects of Confucius 《論語》 11
是可忍也 3. 《八佾》 Ba Yi in The Analects of Confucius 《論語》 30
無惡也 4. 《里仁》 Li Ren in The Analects of Confucius 《論語》 16
可妻也 5. 《公冶長》Gong Ye Chang in The Analects of Confucius 《論語》 49
明是非也 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 in The Book of Rites 《禮記》 24
非禮也 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 in The Book of Rites 《禮記》 16
我未之前聞也 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I in The Book of Rites 《禮記》 189
斯道也 《檀弓下》 Tan Gong II in The Book of Rites 《禮記》 162
其祿以是為差也 《王制》 Royal Regulations in The Book of Rites 《禮記》 16
不知其幾千里也 《內篇‧逍遙遊》 Inner Chapters - Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease in Zhuangzi 《莊子》 49
非昔之隱几者也 《齊物論》 The Adjustment of Controversies in Zhuangzi 《莊子》 107
吾生也有涯 《養生主》 Nourishing the Lord of Life in Zhuangzi 《莊子》 23
名也者 《人間世》 Man in the World, Associated with other Men in Zhuangzi 《莊子》 81
兀者也 《德充符》 The Seal of Virtue Complete in Zhuangzi 《莊子》 55
恐去母而死也 Selections from Stories by Liu Xiang in Selections of Literary Chinese Prose 13
其母尚置自若也 Selections from Stratagems of the Warring States in Selections of Literary Chinese Prose 2
皆生人之累也 Selections from Zhuang Zi in Selections of Literary Chinese Prose 2
楚昭王相也 Sections from Records of the Historian in Selections of Literary Chinese Prose 15
石也 Selections from Han Feizi in Selections of Literary Chinese Prose 5
始也 《釋詁》 Explanation of Old Words in Er Ya 《爾雅》 191
中也 《釋言》 Explanation of Words in Er Ya 《爾雅》 308
察也 《釋訓》 Explanation of Instructions in Er Ya 《爾雅》 118
王父也 《釋親》 Explanation of Family Relations in Er Ya 《爾雅》 4
途也 《釋宮》 Explanation of the Court in Er Ya 《爾雅》 2