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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

(radical 85 +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水女 (EV), four-corner 34140, composition)

  1. you (archaic, informal) (also written in pre-Han times, e.g. in Confucius' Analects)
  2. Rú (汝), a river in Henan (pre-Han times)

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 606, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17138
  • Dae Jaweon: page 999, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1555, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6C5D

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale yu5)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana , romaji i)

  1. second person pronoun; you

[edit] Etymology 2

Likely cognate with i. Perhaps a compound of i and mashi.

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana いまし, romaji imashi)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    足千根乃 母尓障良婆 無用 伊麻思毛吾毛 事應成
    駿河能宇美 於思敝尓於布流 波麻都豆良 伊麻思乎多能美 波播尓多我比奴 一云 於夜尓多我比奴

[edit] Etymology 3

Either a bare morpheme or a contraction of /imasi/ > /masi/. See imashi.

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana まし, romaji mashi)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    許乃河泊尓 安佐菜安良布児 奈礼毛安礼毛 余知乎曽母弖流 伊仾児多婆里尓 一云 麻之毛安礼母

[edit] Etymology 4

The short form of nare.

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana , romaji na)

  1. second person personal pronoun; you
    阿良多麻能 伎倍乃波也之尓 乎多弖天 由伎可都麻思自 移乎佐伎太多尼
    夜麻杼里乃 乎呂能波都乎尓 可賀美可家 刀奈布倍美許曽 尓与曽利鶏米
    • c. 920: Azuma Asobi Uta (#2)
    衣 和賀世古加 介左乃古止天者 奈奈川乎乃 也川乎乃古止乎 之良部 太留古止也 乎加介也末乃 可川乃介也 乎々々々

[edit] Etymology 5

The long form of nare. Compound of na and suffix re.

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana なれ, romaji nare)

  1. second person personal pronoun; you
    許乃河泊尓 安佐菜安良布児 奈礼毛安礼毛 余知乎曽母弖流 伊仾児多婆里尓 一云 麻之毛安礼母
    ちはやぶる宇治のはしもり なれをしぞあはれとは思ふ 年のへぬれば

[edit] Etymology 6

Compound of na and muchi.

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana なむち, romaji namuchi)

  1. second person pronoun; you

[edit] Etymology 7

/namuti/ > /namti/ > /namdi/ > /nandi/. From earlier namuchi. Final voicing due to influence of medial voiced /m/.

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana なむぢ, romaji nanji)

  1. second person personal pronoun; you
    大納言わらゐて、「なむぢらが君の使と名を流しつ。君の仰ごとをば、いかが背くべき」との給て [...]
    大納言起きゐてのたまはく、「汝(なむぢ)らよくもて來ずなりぬ。龍は鳴る神のるいにこそありけれ。[...]」

[edit] Etymology 8

/namuti/ > /namti/ > /namdi/ > /nandi/ > /nanzi/ [nanʥi]

[edit] Pronoun

(hiragana なんじ, romaji nanji, historical hiragana なんぢ)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    汝(なんぢ)が持ちて侍るかぐや姫たてまつれ。」
    いはく、「汝(なんぢ)、おさなき人、いささかなる功徳を翁つくりけるによりて、汝(なんぢ)が助けにとて、かた時のほどとて下ししを[...]」

[edit] Etymology 9

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised yeo, McCune-Reischauer yŏ, Yale ye)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (ru3), Wade-Giles ju3)


[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

汝 (IPA lɤ2)

  1. (Teochew)

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han tự

(nhữ, nhớ, nhở, nhởi, nhứ, nhử, dử, nhừ, nở)

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