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Han characterEdit
你 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人弓火 (ONF), four-corner 27290 or 27292, composition ⿰亻尔)
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 100, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 471
- Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 137, character 5
- Unihan data for U+4F60
ChineseEdit
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nɯʔ): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 尔 (OC *njelʔ). Alternatively, Ideogrammic compound (會意): 人 (“person”) + 尔 (“you”)
EtymologyEdit
Colloquial form of 爾 (OC *njelʔ, “you”) attested since the Tang dynasty. Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
你
- you (the person spoken to or written to)
Usage notesEdit
In traditional Chinese, 你 may be used to specifically refer to a male person, while 妳 can be used for a female person. In simplified Chinese, only 你 is standard.
SynonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
See alsoEdit
| Standard Mandarin Chinese personal pronouns | |||
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| 1st | — | 我 (wǒ) | 我們／我们 (wǒmen) |
| inclusive | 咱們／咱们 (zánmen) | ||
| 2nd | male/indefinite | 你 (nǐ) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) |
| female | 妳／你 (nǐ) | 妳們／你们 (nǐmen) | |
| deity | 祢 (nǐ) | 祢們／祢们 (nǐmen) | |
| polite | 您 (nín) | 你們／你们 (nǐmen) 您們／您们 (nínmen) | |
| 3rd | male/indefinite | 他 (tā) | 他們／他们 (tāmen) |
| female | 她 (tā) | 她們／她们 (tāmen) | |
| deity | 祂 (tā) | 祂們／祂们 (tāmen) | |
| animal | 牠／它 (tā) | 牠們／它们 (tāmen) | |
| inanimate | 它 (tā) | 它們／它们 (tāmen) | |
ReferencesEdit
- “Entry #2881”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
ReadingsEdit
- Go-on: に (ni)
- Kan-on: じ (ji)
- Kun: なんじ (nanji, 你)←なんぢ (nandi, historical); しかり (shikari, 你り); その (sono, 你の); のみ (nomi, 你)
Usage notesEdit
This character is not used in modern Japanese. It may appear as a 略字 (ryakuji, “abbreviated character”) for 爾, itself only used in historical texts and not used in modern Japanese.
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
你 (eum 니 (ni))
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
你: Hán Nôm readings: nể, né, nẻ, nệ, nễ, nhĩ
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