1 old variant of 以[yǐ]

1 see also: 上声 shǎng shēng

1 to go to work

2 to be on duty

3 to start work

4 to go to the office

1 after

2 later

3 afterwards

4 following

5 later on

6 in the future

1 to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)

1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)

1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)

2 to throw a tantrum

1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)

2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse

3 people who will sink or swim together

1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)

2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise

1 lit. to know one and understand half (idiom); a smattering of knowledge

2 dilettante

3 amateur