物

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(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself

Examples

物尽其用

Take it for what it's worth.

物是人非。

Things are the same, but people have changed.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.