created sense approved 既而 · jì'ér · soon after — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
既而
jì'ér
soon after
(literary) used at the start of a sentence or clause to show that a situation or action happened soon after the previous one; later; subsequently
既 (literal) → 既 · jì · soon after 而 (bound) → 而 · ér · [suffix]
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition