"Both Classical Chinese and modern Chinese contain a number of grammatical particles. These can have a number of different functions depending on their placement in a sentence; however, some general roles played by particles in Chinese include indicating possession, a continuous action, completion, addition of emotion, softening of a command, and so forth. In Mandarin, particles are known as y\u01D4zh\u00F9 (\u8BED\u52A9), zh\u00F9z\u00EC (\u52A9\u5B57), zh\u00F9c\u00ED (\u52A9\u8BCD/\u52A9\u8FAD) or y\u01D4c\u00ED (\u8BED\u8BCD)."@en .