云爾

Chinese

		(classical) to say	thus; so; like that thus; so; like that; you; thou
trad. (云爾)		云	爾
simp. (云尔)		云	尔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yún'ěr

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˊ ㄦˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yún'ěr
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˊ ㄦˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yún-ěr
    • Wade–Giles: yün²-êrh³
    • Yale: yún-ěr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuneel
    • Palladius: юньэр (junʹer)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: hjun nyeX

Rime
Character	云	爾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	文 (59)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	王分切	兒氏切
Baxter	hjun	nyeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɨun/	/ȵiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦiun/	/ȵiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuən/	/ȵʑjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦun/	/ȵiə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɣiuən/	/ȵieX/
Wang Li	/ɣĭuən/	/ȵʑǐeX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uən/	/ȵʑie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yún	ěr
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan4	ji5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷə[r]  n[ə][r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢun  njelʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	云	爾
Reading #	1/1	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yún	ěr
Middle Chinese	‹ hjun ›	‹ nyeX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷə[r]/	/*n[ə][r]ʔ/
English	say	(adv. suffix)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	云	爾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	16363	2817
Phonetic component	云	爾
Rime group	文	歌
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	雲	爾
Old Chinese	/*ɢun/	/*njelʔ/
Notes		說文尒聲，甲金文象檷初文， 取林義光說

Adverb

云爾

1. (literary) that's all; nothing more

Synonyms

• 但定 (nā-tiāⁿ) (Min Nan)
• 定定 (Hakka)
• 爾爾／尔尔 (niā-niā) (Hokkien)
• 罷了／罢了
• 而已 (éryǐ)