以

HSK 5#166 by frequencyradical 人

Yǐ["p","c","b"]

by means of; according to; in order to; because of; to use; at (a certain date or place)

Examples

可以。

That's okay.

所以？

And so?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.