矣
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particle of completed action

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approved by Peter Olson · Jan 15, 2022, 03:05 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Jan 15, 2022, 03:05 PM

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Phonosemantic compound. 㠯 represents the sound and 矢 represents the meaning.

Components

㠯
㠯 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 㠯 than it was in ancient scripts.
矢
矢 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthiXqəʔ (atonic)(final particle)

說文解字

《說文》：“矣，語已詞也。从矢，以聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)