爾

See also 尔, and 尓

Translingual

simpl.		尔
trad.		爾

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – cloth on a loom, with threads crossing. Used phonetically.

Han character

爾 (radical 89 爻+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一火月大 (MFBK), four-corner 1022₇)

1. you
2. that, those
3. final particle
4. used in transliteration

Descendants

• 尔

References

• KangXi: page 691, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19750
• Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 27, character 1
• Unihan data for U+723E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爾 (simplified 尔, jyutping ji5, Yale yi5)

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Japanese

Noun

爾 (hiragana おれ, romaji ore)

1. (archaic) (vulgar) you

爾 (hiragana なんじ, romaji nanji)

1. (archaic) thou, you

Interjection

爾 (hiragana しか, romaji shika)

1. (archaic) like that, as such
2. yeah, uh-huh

Kanji

爾

Readings

• On: じ (ji), に (ni)
• Kun: おれ (ore), しか (shika), しかり (shikari), その (sono), なんじ (nanji), のみ (nomi)
• Nanori: あきら (akira), ちか (chika), み (mi), みつる (mitsuru)

Compounds

• 爾来 (jirai): from that time on
• 爾後 (jigo): from this time on

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Korean

Hanja

爾 (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

爾 (simplified 尔, pinyin ěr (er3), Wade-Giles erh³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

爾 (*njiɛ̌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爾 (nhĩ, nhãi)