也

也 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 心木 (PD), four-corner 4471₂, composition ⿻乜丨)

• 他, 吔, 地, 她, 弛, 彵, 忚, 扡, 池, 阤, 肔, 杝, 灺, 牠, 迆, 𥐨, 祂, 䄬, 毑, 䊶, 𦏸, 虵, 衪, 訑, 𫍙, 貤, 酏, 釶, 䪧, 馳, 驰, 䶔, 乸, 㐌, 㦾, 竾, 髢, 匜, 𥒃

• ㄝ (ê̄) (Zhuyin alphabet)
• ㆤ (Zhuyin alphabet)
• や (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)
• ヤ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• KangXi: page 84, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 171
• Dae Jaweon: page 170, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 50, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E5F

Historical forms of the character 也
Spring and Autumn	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Bronze inscriptions b17218 Small seal script s09381 Transcribed ancient scripts L35048 L35049 L35050 L35051 L17347 L17348 L17349 L17350 L17351 L17352 L17353
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Uncertain. There are various possible explanations:

• The traditional glyph origin given in Shuowen explains the character to be a pictogram (象形) of female genitalia.
• It is possibly a pictogram (象形) of an ancient funnel or wash basin. It may be an early form of 匜.
• It was once interchangeable with 它 and may have originated as a simplification.
• It may have been created to represent the modal particle (語氣詞／语气词 (yǔqìcí)). In some bronze inscriptions, it appears to be a mouth (口) with a curved line descending from it to represent air coming out of the mouth.
• It may have signified a big-headed scorpion with its legs flattened, signifying as something very "flat" or "stretched out".

Unclear. Possibly Sino-Tibetan, connectable to Tibetan ལ (la), which is often used as a marker (for oblique locative, dative, possessor in constructions with a copula verb, etc.) but also a topicalizer like ནི (ni, “as for”) (Schuessler, 2007).

也

1. also; too; as well; (in negative sentences) neither; either

   我也去了。  ―  Wǒ yě qù le.  ―  I also went.

   我也是中國人。／我也是中国人。  ―  Wǒ yě shì zhōngguórén.  ―  I am Chinese too.

   你如果不去，我也不去。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Nǐ rúguǒ bù qù, wǒ yě bù qù. [Pinyin]

   If you don't go, I won't either.

   我也沒有看見過它。 [MSC, trad.]
   我也没有看见过它。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ yě méiyǒu kànjiàn guò tā. [Pinyin]

   I haven't seen it either.

2. Used for emphasis.

   這也太不像話了。／这也太不像话了。  ―  Zhè yě tài bùxiànghuà le.  ―  This is way too outrageous.

   1. With object fronting.

      他飯也不吃，覺也不睡。 [MSC, trad.]
      他饭也不吃，觉也不睡。 [MSC, simp.]

      Tā fàn yě bù chī, jiào yě bù shuì. [Pinyin]

      (Disappointingly) he neither eats nor sleeps.

   2. Used in the 連……也…… constructions for stronger emphasis. Interchangeable with 都. even

      他連畜生也不如，連自己的父母也不養活。 [MSC, trad.]
      他连畜生也不如，连自己的父母也不养活。 [MSC, simp.]

      Tā lián xùshēng yě bùrú, lián zìjǐ de fùmǔ yě bù yǎnghuó. [Pinyin]

      He is no better than an animal, because he doesn't even support his own parents.

   3. Used in the 再……也…… concessive constructions. still, anyway, nevertheless

      你再聰明，也回答不了這個問題。 [MSC, trad.]
      你再聪明，也回答不了这个问题。 [MSC, simp.]

      Nǐ zài cōngmíng, yě huídá bùliǎo zhè ge wèntí. [Pinyin]

      No matter how smart you are, you won't be able to answer this question.

3. ^† An emphatic final particle of strong affirmation or identity; indeed.

   生而知之者，上也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

   From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

   Shēng ér zhī zhī zhě, shàng yě. [Pinyin]

   Those who are born with the possession of knowledge are the highest class of men.

   其西有大山，天下至高者也。 [Literary Chinese, trad. and simp.]

   Qí xī yǒu dà shān, tiānxià zhì gāo zhě yě. [Pinyin]

   In the west there are great mountains, which are the tallest in the world.

4. (Teochew) if
5. a surname. Ye

• Caboara, Marco (2010) The particle ye 也 and related constructions in the Guodian manuscripts of IV century BCE (PhD)‎, University of Washington

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. to be
2. (uncommon) also

• Go-on: や (ya); え (e)
• Kan-on: や (ya)
• Kun: なり (nari, 也); か (ka); また (mata, 也)

As an alternative form of 迆:

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: これ (kore, 也)

Orthographic borrowing from Literary Chinese 也 (copula).

Orthographic borrowing from Mandarin 也 (“also”). Probably an early modern innovation.

也 (eumhun 잇기 야 (itgi ya))

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也 (eumhun 어조사 야 (eojosa ya))

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也 (eumhun 잇달을 야 (itdareul ya))

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也: Hán Việt readings: giã, dã
也: Nôm readings: dạ, dã, giã, rã

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• Hồ Lê (1976). Bảng Tra Chữ Nôm. Hanoi: Viện Ngôn Ngữ Học.
• Nguyễn, Quang Hồng (2014). Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải (Nôm Characters with Quotations and Annotations). Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội (Social Sciences Publishing House).
• Williams, Noriko Kurosawa (2010). "The Key to Kanji". Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc.