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已 [yǐ] (已经 yǐjīng) already

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“ a symbol the analysis of which is uncertain, but which is said to indicate an exhalation, an outcry (and serves in this sense e.g. in 牟 móu): hough! voila! it’s finished!” —Karlgren.
    is also written 㠯, 厶 (台), and (with something like 人 added) 以 yǐ. So 已 yǐ ‘already’ is cognate with 以 yǐ ‘use as’. The meanings may have evolved from the primitive meaning ‘use’:
    ‘use’ → 以 ‘use as, consider as’;
    ‘use’ → 已 ‘used up, finished, already’.
已 yǐ is not to be confused with 己 jǐ or 巳 sì.
►references: Guǎngyùn:251.21,357.52; Wieger:85b; Karlgren:AD179,GSR977a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:2.984.1; Mathews:2930; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:326.11; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:004.0.06
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 <WL>已 [yǐ] (已经 yǐjīng) already
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-“ a symbol the analysis of which is uncertain, but which is said to indicate an exhalation, an outcry (and serves in this sense e.g. in 牟 móu): hough! voila! it’s finished!” —Karlgren.
+“􂥷 a symbol the analysis of which is uncertain, but which is said to indicate an exhalation, an outcry (and serves in this sense e.g. in 牟 móu): hough! voila! it’s finished!” —Karlgren.
-	 also changed to 㠯󰀁, 厶, and (with 人 added), 以 yǐ. So 已 yǐ ‘already’ is cognate with 以 yǐ ‘use as’. The meanings may have evolved from the primitive meaning ‘use’:
+	􂥷 is also written 㠯, 厶 (台), and (with something like 人 added) 以 yǐ. So 已 yǐ ‘already’ is cognate with 以 yǐ ‘use as’. The meanings may have evolved from the primitive meaning ‘use’:
-	 use —> 以 use as, consider as;
+	􂥷 ‘use’ → 以 ‘use as, consider as’;
-	 use —> 已 used up, finished, already.
+	􂥷 ‘use’ → 已 ‘used up, finished, already’.
-已 yǐ is not to be confused with 己 jǐ or 巳 sì.
+已 yǐ is not to be confused with 己(􂤸) jǐ or 巳(􂥶) sì.
 #rG.251.21,357.52 W.85b K.AD179,GSR977a D.2.984.1 M.2930 KX..326.11 B.004.0.06
-#y yih/</WL>
+#y yih/
+</WL>