1. particle final particle to express a completed action
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In Literary Chinese, 矣 is analagous to 了 in modern Chinese in being placed after a verb to mark the perfect aspect (CC-CEDICT '矣'; Guoyu '矣' particle 1; Kroll 2015 '矣' 1, p. 546; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 116) For example, 視之,苗則槁矣 'found the corn all withered' (Mengzi: 3.2/16/5, translation by Legge).
  2. particle particle to express certainty
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '矣' particle 2)
  3. particle would; particle to indicate a future condition
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '矣' particle 3; Kroll 2015 '矣' 1a, p. 546)
  4. particle to form a question
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Like 乎 in this sense (Guoyu '矣' particle 4)
  5. particle to indicate a command
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '矣' particle 5)
  6. interjection sigh
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '矣' interjection)
  7. particle particle to express certainty; sma
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: sma, Japanese: i (BCSD '矣', p. 885; MW 'sma'; Unihan '矣')

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往事已矣朝闻道,夕死可矣巧言令色鲜矣仁久矣

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 2 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 114 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Ren Wang Hu Guo Boreluomi Jing Shu 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 — count: 100
  • Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 88
  • Scroll 1 Ren Wang Hu Guo Boreluomi Jing Shu 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 — count: 81
  • Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 80
  • Scroll 16 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 78
  • Scroll 3 Ren Wang Hu Guo Boreluomi Jing Shu 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 — count: 75
  • Scroll 1 In Defense of the Dharma (Hufa Lun) 護法論 — count: 74 , has English translation
  • Scroll 4 Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經 — count: 72 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 14 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 68 , has English translation