已
HSK 3freq #303
Meanings
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- 1.already
- 2.to stop
- 3.then
- 4.afterwards
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Wiktionary
- 1.to stop; to finish
- 2.already; have done something
- 3.Used after predicates, especially noun predicates, to express a new realization by the speaker. Compare 矣 (yǐ), which is used similarly but only after verbs. Sometimes expanded to 也已 or 也已矣, which are synonymous.
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Etymology
Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007). The “already” sense is lexicalized from the verb “to finish; to complete”, and gradually became more common than 既 (OC *kɯds), the older word for “already”, in the mid- to late first millennium BCE (Pulleyblank, 1995).
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Stroke order
Components
已己
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
灯已关了。
The lights are out.
已展開調查。
An investigation was launched.
問題已解決。
The problem's been solved.
火已經灭了。
The fire has gone out.
危險已過去。
The danger is over.
我已經受夠了。
I've had enough.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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