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Strokes:2,3 Wade/Giles:yeh3 Freq:520 
(prtcl.) 
(borr.) also; final partical. Legge: 
(1) A particle used at the end of sentences. Sometimes it might be dispensed with, and at others it is felt to be necessary, not only to the style, but also to give clearness and definiteness to the meaning. It closes also the different clauses in a long predicate, where we might use the semicolon in English. (2) It is used after proper names, after some adverbs, and after a clause, in the first member of a sentence, and may be construed as = as to, the Latin quoad. In these cases it is followed at the end of the sentence by another particle, -- itself, 
yi3, 
yan1, 
hu1 . (3) As correlate of 
zhe3 , in explanation of terms. (4) At the end of sentences, we find
zhe3ye3 , sometimes preceded by
, sometimes not. In these cases
may often be explained as imparting a participial or adjective power to other characters, but not so always. (5)
ye3zhe3 in the first member of a sentence, resuming a previous word, and followed by an explanation or account of it. (6)
=
xie2 , interrogative. (7) As a final, it is often followed by other particles... 
Wieger: Lesson #107B. A picture of an ancient utensil, either a funnel or a drinking vessel.
Wilder: #4.
H1 image, all nines,
tian1 de2 bu4 ke3 wei2 shou3 ye3
Legge: "the attribute of heaven (thereby denoted) should not (always) take the foremost place."
Wilhelm: "It is the nature of heaven not to appear as head."
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Blofeld: "Neither advance nor retreat can go on indefinately; what matters is not to desert the others."
Legge: "He may advance or recede;--there is no permanent place for him: but he does not leave his fellows."
Wilhelm: "In advance or retreat no sustained perseverence avails, except that one must not depart from one's nature."
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