而已

HSK 7–9#1377 by frequencyradical 而

ér yǐ["y","u"]

that's all; nothing more

Examples

只是感冒而已。

It's just a cold.

嗯，仅此而已。

Yea, that's all it is.

Part of the HSK 7–9 word list.

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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.