Chinese Notes

矣 yǐ

yǐ 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).
yǐ particle particle to express certainty
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '矣' particle 2)
yǐ 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)
yǐ particle to form a question
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Like 乎 in this sense (Guoyu '矣' particle 4)
yǐ particle to indicate a command
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '矣' particle 5)
yǐ interjection sigh
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '矣' interjection)

往事已矣 the past is dead
朝闻道，夕死可矣(朝聞道，夕死可矣) if one hears the Way in the morning, he can die [without regret] in the evening
久矣 already for a long time
巧言令色鲜矣仁(巧言令色鮮矣仁) flattering speech and an ingratiating expression are rarely associated with virtue

Truncated for common words

昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 252
襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 163
Scroll 9 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 89
僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 83
卷十八　趙一 Chapter 18: Zhao I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 77
《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 77
成公 Lord Cheng The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 74
卷二十四　魏三 Chapter 24: Wei III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 69
哀公 Lord Ai The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 67
卷二十　趙三 Chapter 20: Zhao III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 66