爾
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Translingual
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Han character
爾 (Kangxi radical 89, 爻+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一火月大 (MFBK), four-corner 10227)
Derived characters
Descendants
Further reading
- KangXi: page 691, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19750
- Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 27, character 1
- Unihan data for U+723E
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Characters in the same phonetic series (爾) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – cloth on a loom, with threads crossing – original form of 檷 (OC *niːlʔ, “loom”). Used phonetically.
Etymology 1
| trad. | 爾 | |
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| simp. | 尔 | |
| alternative forms | 尒 𡭗 尓 𠇍 | |
- “you; your”
- From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).
- "that"
- Cognate with 那 (nà, “that”), 若 (OC *njaɡ, “that”) (Schuessler, 2007). See 那 (nà) for more.
Pronunciation
Definitions
爾
- (literary or dialectal) you; your
- 誰謂爾無羊，三百維群。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Shéi wèi ěr wú yáng, sānbǎi wéi qún. [Pinyin]
- Who can say that you have no sheep? There are three hundred in [each] herd.
谁谓尔无羊，三百维群。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) so; this way
- (literary or dialectal) this; that
- (obsolete, of flowers) exuberant
- 彼爾維何，維常之華。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Bǐ ěr wéi hé, wéi cháng zhī huā. [Pinyin]
- What is that so gorgeous? It is the flowers of the cherry tree.
彼尔维何，维常之华。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (obsolete) a suffix or word-final particle indicating state, appearance, sound, or manner accompanying a verb
- Synonym: 然 (rán)
- 鼓瑟希，鏗爾。舍瑟而作，對曰… [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Gǔ sè xī, kēng ěr. Shě sè ér zuò, duì yuē... [Pinyin]
- (Zeng Dian), pausing as he was playing on his se, while it was yet twanging, laid the instrument aside, and said...
鼓瑟希，铿尔。舍瑟而作，对曰… [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) a sentence final particle; merely; only
- a surname
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 你 (“you (singular)”) [map]
Compounds
Pronunciation
Definitions
爾
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Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Pronunciation
Definitions
爾
- Used in transcription.
Usage notes
It is often used to transcribe the /l/ and /r/ sounds in words of foreign languages not immediately followed by a vowel, e.g. 尼泊爾／尼泊尔 (Níbó'ěr, “Nepal”), 斯德哥爾摩／斯德哥尔摩 (Sīdégē'ěrmó, “Stockholm”), 克什米爾／克什米尔 (Kèshímǐ'ěr, “Kashmir”), 塞爾維亞／塞尔维亚 (Sài'ěrwéiyà, “Serbia”), etc.
Compounds
Derived terms from 爾
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Japanese
Readings
Compounds
Affix
爾 • (ji)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
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| 爾 |
| おれ Jinmeiyō |
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| 儞 |
From Old Japanese, found in use mostly from ancient times until roughly the Heian period,[1] used to refer in the second person to social inferiors or to insult.[1][2][3]
The second person sense of you appears to be obsolete in modern Japanese.
Usage notes
- Often used to insult. Compare modern Japanese お前 (omae), English you son of a bitch.
- Not to be confused with the modern first person pronoun 俺 (ore).
Etymology 3
| Kanji in this term |
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| 爾 |
| なんじ Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
| For pronunciation and definitions of 爾 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 爾, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
Etymology 4
| Kanji in this term |
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| 爾 |
| しか Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
| For pronunciation and definitions of 爾 – see 然. (This term, 爾, is an alternative spelling of the above terms.) |
(The following entry is uncreated: 然.)
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
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References
Old Japanese
Etymology
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Pronoun
爾 (ore) (kana おれ)
- second person pronoun: you
- 711–712, Kojiki (Second scroll, Yamato Takeru no mikoto)
- 爾詔：「吾者坐纒向之日代宮所知大八嶋國。大帶日子淤斯呂和氣天皇之御子、名倭男具那王者也、意禮熊曾建二人不伏無禮聞看而、取殺意禮詔而遣。」
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- 711–712, Kojiki (Second scroll, Yamato Takeru no mikoto)
Vietnamese
Han character
爾: Hán Việt readings: nhĩ
爾: Nôm readings: nhãi, nhĩ
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References
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