無已

Chinese

		not have	already; to stop; then already; to stop; then; afterwards
trad. (無已)		無	已
simp. (无已)		无	已

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúyǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ ji⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúyǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúyǐ
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-i³
    • Yale: wú-yǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuyii
    • Palladius: уи (ui)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ i²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ ji⁵
    • Yale: mòuh yíh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ ji⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ yi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ jiː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: mju yiX|yiH

Rime
Character	無	已	已
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	以 (36)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	之 (19)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	武夫切	羊己切	羊吏切
Baxter	mju	yiX	yiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨo/	/jɨX/	/jɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/mio/	/jɨX/	/jɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/mio/	/ieX/	/ieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆/	/jɨX/	/jɨH/
Li Rong	/mio/	/iəX/	/iəH/
Wang Li	/mĭu/	/jĭəX/	/jĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯u/	/iX/	/iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wú	yǐ	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou4	ji5	ji6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ma  ɢ(r)əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ma  lɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	無	已
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wú	yǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ mju ›	‹ yiX ›
Old Chinese	/*ma/	/*ɢ(r)əʔ/
English	not have	cease; already
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	無	已
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13117	14924
Phonetic component	無	已
Rime group	魚	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	無	以
Old Chinese	/*ma/	/*lɯʔ/
Notes		巳轉註字

Verb

無已

1. (literary) to be endless; to be incessant; to not stop
2. (literary) to have no other alternatives (but to do something); to have no other choices (but to do something)

   • 是謀非吾所能及也，無已，則有一焉。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     是谋非吾所能及也，无已，则有一焉。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Shì móu fēi wú suǒ néng jí yě, wúyǐ, zé yǒu yī yān. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)