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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

(radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸山 (SU) or X尸山 (XSU), four-corner 17717)

References

  • KangXi: page 326, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8743
  • Dae Jaweon: page 630, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 984, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5DF2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Significance uncertain. The ancient character is analyzed by some sources as an exhalation of breath, suggesting the completion of an action. (in one of its uses) and are ultimately descended from this same character.

Pronunciation



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ yiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ɢ(r)əʔ/
English cease; already

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14924
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lɯʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to stop; to finish
  2. already; have done something

Compounds

  • 一夔已足
  • 不已 (bùyǐ)
  • 不得已 (bùdéyǐ)
  • 不為已甚不为已甚
  • 不能自已
  • 低徊不已
  • 勢不得已势不得已
  • 喋喋不已
  • 墓木已拱
  • 壯心不已壮心不已
  • 大勢已去大势已去
  • 大勢已定大势已定
  • 大局已定
  • 已去
  • 已婚 (yǐhūn)
  • 已定 (yǐdìng)
  • 已往
  • 已故 (yǐgù)
  • 已決已决 (yǐjué)
  • 已然
  • 已甚 (yǐshèn)
  • 已矣
  • 已知數已知数
  • 已經已经 (yǐjīng)
  • 已而
  • 已而不登
  • 已還已还
  • 必不得已
  • 悶悶不已闷闷不已
  • 情非得已
  • 斃而後已毙而后已
  • 方寸已亂方寸已乱
  • 日已銜山日已衔山
  • 早已 (zǎoyǐ)
  • 有加無已有加无已
  • 木已成舟
  • 業已业已 (yèyǐ)
  • 死而後已死而后已
  • 為時已晚为时已晚
  • 無已无已
  • 生生不已
  • 病已成勢病已成势
  • 米已成炊
  • 紛爭不已纷争不已
  • 羽翮已就
  • 羽翼已成
  • 而已 (éryǐ)
  • 芳魂已杳
  • 萬不得已万不得已
  • 誅求無已诛求无已
  • 諾已诺已
  • 貪求無已贪求无已
  • 迫不得已 (pòbùdéyǐ)
  • 逼不得已

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

May be replaced with 以 in some compounds, eg. 已降→以降.


Korean

Hanja

(i) (hangeul , revised i, McCune-Reischauer i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, dãi)

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