Yin Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Self (jǐ)
Kangxi Strokes: 3
Page 326, Entry 11
Guangyun (Comprehensive Rhymes): Pronounced yǐ
Jiyun (Collective Rhymes), Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced yǐ
Yupian (Jade Chapters): To stop, to finish, to conclude.
Guangyun: To complete.
Jiyun: A term for finishing a task.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram of Decrease (Sun): Finish the matter and proceed quickly.
Also, Yupian: To retreat.
Guangyun: To leave, to abandon.
Book of Documents (Shangshu), Canon of Yao: Test his abilities and then stop.
Analects (Lunyu): He stopped three times.
Also, excessively.
Guangyun: Already, very much.
Mencius (Mengzi): Confucius did not do what was excessive.
Commentary: Not wishing to be excessive, meaning going too far.
Also, Guangyun: A particle indicating an event has passed.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Guan Fu: Having already made a promise.
Commentary: Suoyin states: It means having already given a promise, one must ensure it aligns with previous words.
Also, Leipian (Categorized Chapters): A final particle.
Zengyun (Expanded Rhymes): A sentence-ending particle.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Mei Fu: There is no way to remedy this.
Also, after a period of time, it is referred to as "yier".
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Emperor Gaozu: After a while, she became pregnant.
Also, interchangeable with "yǐ" (by means of).
Xunzi, Against Physiognomy: What is it that makes a human, human? It is that they possess distinctions.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Zhang Liang: The matters of the Yin dynasty were already completed.
Also, Guangyun, Jiyun: Pronounced yì. Meaning is the same.