已
yǐ HSK2

already

已 yǐ
already adverb
already; used in formal or written contexts to indicate an action has finished or a state has been reached

您的对手已离开游戏。

nín de duì​shǒu yǐ lí kāi yóu​xì.

Your opponent has left the game.

我爱这些书已有几十年了。

wǒ ài zhè​xiē shū yǐ yǒu jǐ shí nián le.

I have loved these books for decades.

[final particle] particle
(literary) used at the end of a sentence to express completion or to mean "that's all"
to stop adjectiveadverb
(bound form) to stop; to cease; to end
afterward
(literary) afterward; subsequently; soon after
too
(literary) too; excessively; to an extreme degree
surname
a Chinese surname
musical note
a note of the scale in gongchepu 工尺谱 gōng​chě​pǔ
to dismiss
(literary) to dismiss from office; to remove from a post
to finish
(literary) to finish; to complete; to fulfill
to recover
(literary) to recover from an illness; to be cured

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Frequency
Character
Written text
117th most common 1644.1 per million
Movie subtitles
129th most common 1389.4 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
197.8 per million appears in 48% of films
Written text
836.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+5DF2

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)