Sinograph Addenda · Signs

this-here

Name	this-here
Reads	cǐ
Means	this, this one here
Taught in	14 · All of it

Where it comes from

A footprint 止 with a figure standing beside it — the stated account: where someone has stopped walking is here, and the near thing is this. Against 是 (“this” as the matter at hand) 此 points with the finger. Taught in the all-of-it chapter.

How to remember it

A footprint and someone standing over it: this here, the spot underfoot.

In the wild

此謂知本。cǐ wèi zhī běn"THIS is called knowing the root" — 此 gathering a whole argument onto the spot

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