爾

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

尔

🇨🇳

you (literary)

HSK 10 N1

Human →Relations

ěr

ジ、ニ

なんじ、しかり、その、のみ、おれ、しか

이

Pictograph of a sharp weapon with a sharp head and tail decorations on the end. Similar in origin to 朿. Original meaning unclear.

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

尔

Regular

Modern

Chinese

尔 / 爾 [ěr]

thus; so; like that; you; thou

Japanese

汝、爾なんじ同音

pronoun archaic thou; you

爾、儞おれ同音

pronoun archaicderogatory you

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

艱難汝を玉にす。

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Japanese Names

爾あきら

Akira given name

爾しゅうじ

Shuuji given name

爾その

Sono female given namesurname

爾ちかし

Chikashi surname

爾なんじ

Nanji surname

爾に

Ni surname

爾みつる

Mitsuru surnamegiven name

CHINESE WORDS (200)

偶尔 [ǒu'ěr] #3,218

occasionally

高尔夫 [gāo'ěrfū] #4,116

golf (loanword)

哈尔滨 [Hā'ěrbīn] #29,827

Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēilóngjiāng] in northeast China

比尔 [Bǐ'ěr] #2,102

Bill (name)

英特尔 [Yīngtè'ěr] #41,121

Intel

爱尔兰 [Aì'ěrlán] #2,937

Ireland

海尔 [Hǎi'ěr] #15,723

Haier (PRC household appliance brand)

福尔摩斯 [Fú'ěrmósī] #2,546

Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1]

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JAPANESE WORDS (32)

莞爾として [かんじとして] #127,033

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