汝兄
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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汝 | 兄 |
な Jinmeiyō |
せ Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
Etymology edit
Old Japanese. 汝 (na, variably first- or second-person pronoun: "I" or "you"; here used to mean "I, my") + 兄 (se, “a female's brother”).[1][2][3]
First attested in 712.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- [from 712] (archaic, women's speech) an intimate form of address for a male by a female: "my brother"[4]
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “汝兄”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ “汝兄”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen][2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN