也 — 3 strokes ／ Radical「乙」
道準1University / general ／ 3 strokes ／ Radical「乙」
- On
- ヤ・エ
- Kun
- なり・か・また
- Meaning
- is; to be (classical)
Origin
A pictograph of a vessel for pouring; later borrowed as the particle that ends a classical statement.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 也なり
is; to be (classical copula)
- 達也たつや
Tatsuya (given name)
Example
昔の文では文末に也を置いた。
In classical writing, this character was placed at the end of a sentence.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)