矣 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「矢」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 7 strokes ／ Radical「矢」
- On
- イ
- Kun
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- Meaning
- a final particle in classical Chinese
Origin
Arrow 矢 with 厶 as phonetic: in classical Chinese, a particle closing a sentence with finality.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 矣かな
the closing particle
- 已矣やんぬるかな
alas, it is over
Example
漢文の句末に矣を置いて言い切る。
The particle is set at the sentence end to close it firmly.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)