又

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/又

Glyph origin
– a right hand. Original form of.

Etymology
Adverbial derivation of.

Definitions

 * 1) again; once more
 * 2) ; both ... and ...
 * 3) also; in addition
 * 4) but; on the other hand
 * 1) ; both ... and ...
 * 2) also; in addition
 * 3) but; on the other hand
 * 1) also; in addition
 * 2) but; on the other hand
 * 1) also; in addition
 * 2) but; on the other hand
 * 1) but; on the other hand
 * 1) but; on the other hand
 * 1) but; on the other hand
 * 1) but; on the other hand
 * 1) but; on the other hand

Usage notes
Compared to which is used for something that has not happened,  is used for something that already happened.

Kanji

 * 1) again, as well
 * 2) and
 * 3) also

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Both John B. Whitman and Alexander Francis-Ratté speculate of a connection to, although Whitman and Francis-Ratté's belief that Korean and Japanese are genetically linked does not have consensus in the field.

Pronoun

 * 1) we, us

Usage notes
This term is given as a native Korean equivalent of the Chinese first-person pronouns and  in plural contexts (Chinese not making the distinction morphologically) in three different sources of Korean-language interpretive  glosses to the Buddhist canon, made between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. Interpretive gugyeol encodes guidelines by which a Korean speaker could have read out a Classical Chinese text in its native Korean translation, much like Japanese. These three sources accordingly instruct the Korean reader to pronounce the Chinese first-person pronouns as or, allowing us to understand that this is the Old Korean word for "we; us".

The Middle Korean first-person plural pronoun is almost certainly derived from it, although the second syllable remains as yet inexplicable.