亦 yì as well
also; too
How it came to be
A standing person with a short mark under each arm, pointing at the armpits. It was the word for armpit and was borrowed for also, so the body part had to be rewritten.
用法
- Literary 'also, too' - the classical equivalent of 也 - 人云亦云 (rén yún yì yún) to parrot whatever others say.
- Appears in fixed/formal phrases like 亦然, 反之亦然 (fǎnzhī yìrán) and vice versa; not used in ordinary speech, where 也 does the job.