也罢 (也罷)
yě bà
Pinyin
Definition
也罢 (也罷)
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- (reduplicated) whether... or...
- never mind
- fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (8)
- 1 surname Ye
- 1 perhaps
- 2 maybe
- 1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
- 1 in other words
- 2 that is to say
- 3 so
- 4 thus
- 1 (reduplicated) whether... or...
- 2 never mind
- 3 fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
Idioms (4)
之乎者也
- 1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
成也萧何,败也萧何
- 1 lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Hán Xìn] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[dà jiāng jūn]
- 2 fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
空空如也
- 1 as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft
- 2 to have nothing
- 3 vacuous
- 4 hollow
- 5 empty (argument, head etc)
丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆
- 1 lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's not something you can avoid forever
Sample Sentences
哎,原因太多了,不提也罢。我和她分手的时候也很痛苦,可是过了一段时间,慢慢就好了。
Oh, there were so many reasons, it's better not to get into it. When I broke up with her I also suffered a lot--but as time passed by, it slowly got better.
你们同意也罢,不同意也罢,反正我就是要跟她结婚。
I'm marrying her whether you agree or disagree.
也罢
Whether...or...