Zi:已

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
►Cantonese: yih/
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