已经已經 in English

Measure word

• 家 jiā home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical... attested in use
• 方 fāng square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute... attested in use

Character breakdown

• 已 yǐ already
• 经經 jīng classics

Stroke order

How it used to be written

已

• Bronze script 春秋晚期

经

These are the forms of 經, the traditional character: 经 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 14 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• “我已经在排队呢，”我告诉他。

  "But I'm already queuing," I tell him.

• 「克里奥帕特拉」这个名字已经成为了美女的代名词。

  The name "Cleopatra" has become a byword for a beautiful woman.

• 23点我打电话给她的时候，她已经去睡觉了。

  She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.

• CD已经取代了胶木唱片。

  CDs have taken the place of records.

• 不要以为我已经忘了你，你在我的脑海中，但我抽不出时间给你写信。

  Don't think I've forgotten you already, you've been on my mind, but I haven't been able to take the time to write to you.

• 事情真的已经了结了吗？

  Is it really all over?

• 从我开始学法文，已经过去三年了。

  It's been three years since I started to study French.

• 他们分房睡，即使他们已经结婚了。

  They sleep in separate bedrooms even though they're married.

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