Chinese symbol for “already”
已经
yǐ jīng
Traditional: 已經
already
The closest CC-CEDICT match for already is 已经 (yǐ jīng), defined as: already.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “already”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 已 | yǐ | already; (bound form) to stop; to cease; to end |
| 既 | jì | already; since |
| 已然 | yǐ rán | already; to be already so; to have long been the case |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even |
| 业已 (業已) | yè yǐ | already |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 已经.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 而已 | ér yǐ | that's all; nothing more |
| 早已 | zǎo yǐ | for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past |
| 不已 | bù yǐ | (used after a verb) endlessly; incessantly |
| 已知 | yǐ zhī | known (to science) |
| 已婚 | yǐ hūn | married |
| 经济 (經濟) | jīng jì | economy; economic |
| 经过 (經過) | jīng guò | to pass; to go through |
| 经验 (經驗) | jīng yàn | experience; to go through; to experience |
See also: Japanese symbol for “already”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.