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依然

yī rán 1–2

still; as before

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
依 · 然
Syllables
2
yī rán
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,943

Part of speech: d,z

Character by character

  • 依yī8 strokesHSK 4rely on, be set in; consent, obey a wish
  • 然rán12 strokesHSK 2yes, certainly; pledge, promise

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我依然不关心。

    Wǒ yī rán bù guān xīn

    I still don't care.

  • 我依然不理解。

    Wǒ yī rán bù lǐ jiě

    I still don't understand.

  • 我们依然做得很好。

    Wǒ men yī rán zuò de hěn hǎo

    We are still doing well.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 依然. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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