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
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
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

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
《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
卷十八　趙一 Chapter 18: Zhao I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — 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