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Change log entry 66249
Processed by: richwarm (2018-08-18 20:30:33 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 62694 - submitted by 'sl89' >>
* The pronouns' definitions may be too wordy, but I think it's clearer this way than just "he/she". Do feel free to change back if I'm wrong.
* MoE has two senses I've not seen defined anywhere else: "表示肯定,相当于「是」" (动); "文言助词,表示「刚刚」的意思。" (副), so I'm not adding them here.
* Only 规范词典 has the sense "that", but all dictionaries include the word 伊人, in which 伊 means exactly that, so I thought it appropriate to include.

【Wenlin】
pr. 〈wr.〉 he; she ◆n. Surname

【Pleco】
AUXILIARY
CLASSICAL
[before a word or an expression]
| 伊谁之力?
| To whom should the credit go?
| 其效伊何?
| What was the result of it all?
NOUN
(Yī)
a surname
PRONOUN
LITERARY
he or she

【MoE】

1. 第三人称代名词,相当于「彼」、「他」。
| 《诗经.秦风.蒹葭》:「所谓伊人,在水 一方。」
| 宋.柳永〈蝶恋花.伫倚危楼风细细〉词:「衣带渐宽终不悔,为伊消得人憔悴。」
2. 第二人称代名词,相当于「你」。
| 《董西厢.卷七》:「我于伊志诚没倦怠,你于我坚心莫更改。」
| 元.佚名《马陵道.第三折》:「我这里吐胆倾心说与伊,难道你不解其中意。」

1. 表示肯定,相当于「是」。
| 《诗经.小雅.蓼莪》:「蓼蓼者莪,匪莪伊蒿。」
| 《后汉书.卷七八.宦者传.孙程传》:「昔卫鞅因景监以见,有识知其不终。今得臣举者,匪荣伊辱。」

1. 发语词,无义。
| 《诗经.邶风.谷风》:「不念昔者,伊余来塈。」
| 《文选.陆机.文赋》:「伊兹事之可乐,固圣贤之所钦。」
2. 文言助词,表示「刚刚」的意思。如:「就职伊始」、「开幕伊始」。

姓。如商朝有伊尹。

【LAC】
1. 助词。表示增加音节,无实义。
| 国家草创,百度~始。
2. 〈书〉第三人称代名词,相当于「彼」、「他」。
| ~人
| 为~消得人憔悴。
3. 姓。

【规范】
1 助 <文> 用在主语或谓语前面, 加强句子的语气或感情色彩
| 伊谁之力
| 下车伊始。
2 名 姓。
1 代 <文> 用在名词前,起指示作用,相当于"这(个)""那(个)"
| 所谓伊人,在水一方
| 伊年暮春。
2 代 称第三者, 相当于“他”或“她”(五四前后有的文学作品中专指女性)。

A good, short article on how 伊 came to be used exclusively for "she" during the May 4th period:
http://kns.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CJFQ&dbname=CJFD9899&filename=YWJZ199905014&v=MDc0MjZLZllPUm1GQ3ZsV3IvTVBEckJkTEt4RjlqTXFvOUVZSVIrRDMwK3V4OW5tRXg3VEhianF4RTBGckNVUkw=&uid=WEEvREcwSlJHSldTTEYzU3EycEhmbVF3dno5WlVWR2gyN1dibXhseXVnbz0=$9A4hF_YAuvQ5obgVAqNKPCYcEjKensW4ggI8Fm4gTkoUKaID8j8gFw!!
【鲁迅小说中的“伊”和“她”】咬文嚼字,1999年05期
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Editor: Thanks. I just changed the left and right quotation marks to regular ASCII quotation marks.
Diff:
- 伊 伊 [yi1] /he/she/
# + 伊 伊 [yi1] /(old) third person singular pronoun (“he” or “she”) /second person singular pronoun (“you”) /(May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun (“she”) /(Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning /that (preceding a noun)/
+ 伊 伊 [yi1] /(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she")/second person singular pronoun ("you")/(May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she")/(Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning/that (preceding a noun)/
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