to sneak off; to escape in stealth; to leave or enter secretly

Used only in the object position to refer to a person or thing already mentioned, meaning "him", "her", "it", or "them".

(classical) used at the end of a sentence to express interrogation, doubt, surmise, or exclamation; similar to 吗 ma or 啊 a

(literary) particle used at the end of a sentence to indicate a judgment, explanation, or to strengthen an affirmative or interrogative mood; or used mid-sentence after a word or phrase to indicate a pause or emphasize the topic