已

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

This character is not to be confused with visually similar but unrelated 己 or 巳.

• 𠖰, 𡉏, 𡴾, 𢩽, 𨑓, 𤣱, 𥝗, 𫧟, 𬜒, 𧿆, 𩨕, 𩝮, 𬀺, 𥮄
• 𤏁 (Exception: Only for Taiwan character form as Hong Kong character contains 己 instead)

• 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

已

1. to stop; to finish

   • 此水幾時休，此恨何時已。 [MSC, trad.]
     此水几时休，此恨何时已。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: Song Dynasty, 李之儀, 《卜算子·我住長江頭》

     Cǐ shuǐ jǐshí xiū, cǐ hèn héshí yǐ. [Pinyin]

     When will the river cease to flow? When will this brooding end?

2. already; have done something

   • 情義已失去，恩愛都失去 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     情义已失去，恩爱都失去 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 1983, 陳百強, 《偏偏喜歡你》

     cing⁴ ji⁶ ji⁵ sat¹ heoi³, jan¹ oi³ dou¹ sat¹ heoi³ [Jyutping]

     Friendship has already gone, and all of the love is gone

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: すでに (sudeni, 已に); やむ (yamu, 已む); のみ (nomi, 已)
• Nanori: み (mi)

From Middle Chinese 已.

已 (hiragana い, rōmaji i)

1. already
2. Alternative form of 以 (i)

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

已 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i)

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已 (dĩ, dãi)

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