既
Meanings
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- 1.already
- 2.since
- 3.both... (and...)
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Wiktionary
- 1.already
- 2.to have a total solar eclipse or lunar eclipse
- 3.to be finished; to end
- 4.all
- 5.since; as; now that
- 6.both . . . (and...); as well as
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 皀 (“bowl of rice”) + 旡 (“kneeling figure”) – person kneeling at bowl of rice – sitting down to eat (rice already finished cooking), turning away (already finished eating) or abstaining from eating or consuming. Note the stroke order in the right component 旡, which may not be clear in the compressed form of this character: the left vertical and second horizontal are one stroke with a corner, while the upper right vertical continues in a diagonal stroke to lower left. Maybe Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Exopassive (perfective) of 訖／讫 (qì, “to finish”); possibly cognate to 暨 (jì, “to reach”), see there. Löffler (1966) compares this to Mru ki (“complete”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我既紧张又害怕。
I'm nervous and scared.
她既没钱，也不出名。
She's neither rich nor famous.
我既不抽烟也不喝酒。
I don't drink or smoke.
湯姆既沒朋友，也沒敵人。
Tom has no friends and no enemies.
既要马好，又要马不吃草。
You can't have it both ways.
我既不能確認也不能否定。
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
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Derived terms
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