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已 — already; to stop; then

already; to stop; then; afterwards

Pinyin
yǐ
Strokes
3
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 已: 3 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

已 — 3 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 已 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 已经yǐjīngalreadyHSK 2
  2. 已yǐalready; to stop; then; afterwardsHSK 4
  3. 早已zǎoyǐfor a long time; long since; in the pastHSK 5
  4. 不已bùyǐendlessly; incessantlyHSK 6
  5. 不得已bùdéyǐto act against one's willHSK 7–9
  6. 而已éryǐthat's all; nothing moreHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.