也
yě
Me too, on the very same spot: 也
The picture Putting your foot on the exact spot where someone else is already standing. 也 stacks one more onto a spot already taken; 都 sweeps in everything laid out before it.
Where the picture shows up in 也
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me on the same spot
我也是这么想的。
wǒ yě shì zhè me xiǎng de
I think so too.
Raising your hand to the same height, right beside the hand already up.
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one more on the same person
他会说韩语，也会说英语。
tā huì shuō hán yǔ, yě huì shuō yīng yǔ
He speaks Korean, and English as well.
Pinning a second name tag next to the one already on someone's chest.
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the same emptiness
你不去，我也不去。
nǐ bú qù, wǒ yě bú qù
If you're not going, I'm not going either.
Your chair pushed in and left empty, because theirs is empty too.
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same result from any spot
再忙也要吃饭。
zài máng yě yào chī fàn
No matter how busy you are, you have to eat.
A rice bowl still sitting at the edge of a desk buried in paperwork.
In 再…也 ('no matter how…'), 也 says the result lands on the same spot whichever spot you stand on.
All of it in one picture
也 never opens a new spot; it sets a foot on one already taken. A hand going up beside another hand is 'me too'; a second name tag on the same chest is 'and also'; your chair left empty beside theirs is 'me neither'. A bowl that stays on the desk no matter how high the paperwork is the same result from any spot. In all four the spot doesn't move — something is simply laid on top of it.