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汝

汝

汝 U+6C5D, 汝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C5D
← 汜
[U+6C5C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 汞 →
[U+6C5E]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 汝
alt. forms 女
你 Min (colloquial)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (女) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
拿 *rnaː
拏 *rnaː
詉 *rnaː
蒘 *rnaː, *na
笯 *rnaː, *naː, *naːs
挐 *rnaː, *na
絮 *rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas
呶 *rnaːw
怓 *rnaːw
帑 *n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː
奴 *naː
砮 *naː, *naːʔ
駑 *naː
孥 *naː
努 *naːʔ
弩 *naːʔ
怒 *naːʔ, *naːs
袽 *na
帤 *na
女 *naʔ, *nas
籹 *naʔ
恕 *hnjas
如 *nja, *njas
茹 *nja, *njaʔ, *njas
洳 *nja, *njas
鴽 *nja
蕠 *nja
汝 *njaʔ
肗 *njaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njaʔ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 女 ‎(OC *naʔ, *nas).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ ‎(“you”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 汝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 人渚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵɨə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiɔX/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 rǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 汝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 rǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyoX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*naʔ/
English you (sg.)

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 汝
Reading # 1/1
No. 9628
Phonetic
component		 女
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 汝
Old
Chinese		 /*njaʔ/

Definitions

汝

  1. (obsolete or Min) you (second-person pronoun)
  2. A surname​.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 你 (“you (singular)”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 汝、爾
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 你
Mandarin Beijing 你、您
Jinan 你
Xi'an 你
Wuhan 你、你家
Chengdu 你
Yangzhou 你
Hefei 你
Cantonese Guangzhou 你
Hong Kong 你
Taishan 你
Yangjiang 你
Gan Nanchang 你
Hakka Meixian 你
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 你
Liudui (S. Sixian) 你
Hsinchu (Hailu) 你
Dongshi (Dabu) 你
Zhuolan (Raoping) 你
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 你
Jin Taiyuan 你
Min Bei Jian'ou 你
Min Dong Fuzhou 汝
Min Nan Quanzhou 汝
Xiamen 汝
Zhangzhou 汝
Taipei 汝
Kaohsiung 汝
Tainan 汝
Taichung 汝
Yilan 汝
Lukang 汝
Sanxia 汝
Kinmen 汝
Magong 汝
Hsinchu 汝
Malaysia 汝
Singapore 汝
Philippine 汝
Chaozhou 汝
Shantou 汝
Wu Shanghai 儂
Suzhou 倷
Wenzhou 你
Ningbo 儂、爾、爾儂、像儂、像爾
Xiang Changsha 你
Shuangfeng 你

Compounds

  • 汝南 (Rǔnán)
  • 汝南月旦
  • 汝墳／汝坟
  • 汝州
  • 汝水 (“a river in Henan province”)
  • 汝窯／汝窑
  • 汝輩／汝辈
  • 爾汝／尔汝
  • 爾汝之交／尔汝之交
  • 笑罵從汝／笑骂从汝

Japanese

Kanji

汝

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Etymology 1

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana い, romaji i)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    • 712: Kojiki (page 156)
      大久米命二人、召兄宇迦斯罵詈云、伊賀此二字以音所作仕奉於大殿内者、意禮此二字以音先入、明白其將爲仕奉之状而[...]

Etymology 2

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana まし, romaji mashi)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3440)
      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
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Prefix i + pronoun 汝 ‎(mashi). See also 汝 ‎(mimashi).

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana いまし, romaji imashi)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 11, poem 2517)
      足千根乃 母尓障良婆 無用 伊麻思毛吾毛 事應成
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3359)
      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
    • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #29)
      朕子伊末之仁授給

Etymology 4

Honorific prefix mi + pronoun 汝 ‎(mashi). See also 汝 ‎(imashi).

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana みまし, romaji mimashi)

  1. second person pronoun; you
    • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #5)
      藤原宮爾天下所知美麻斯乃父止坐天皇乃美麻斯爾賜志天下之業止詔大命乎聞食恐美受賜懼理坐事乎衆聞食宣。可久賜時爾美麻斯王乃齡乃弱爾[...]吾子美麻斯王爾授賜[...]
    • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #51)
      美末斯大臣乃萬政總以<...> 彌麻之大臣之家内子等乎母<...>美麻之大臣乃罷道母[...]
    • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #52)
      大命坐詔久美麻斯大臣乃仕奉來狀波[...]

Etymology 5

Old Japanese. Possibly cognate with Korean 너 ‎(neo, “you”, second-person singular informal pronoun).

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana な, romaji na)

  1. second person personal pronoun; you
    • 712: Kojiki (poem #5)
      夜知富許能 加微能美許登夜 阿賀淤富久迩奴斯 那許曾波 遠迩伊麻世婆 宇知微流 斯麻能佐岐邪岐 加岐微流 伊蘇能佐岐淤知受和加久佐能 都麻母多勢良米 阿波母與 賣迩斯阿禮婆 那遠岐弖遠波那志 那遠岐弖 都麻波那斯 [...]
    • 720: Nihon Shoki (poem #90)
      飫裒枳瀰能 耶陛能矩瀰哿枳 哿哿梅騰謀 儺嗚阿摩之耳彌 哿哿農倶彌柯枳
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3353)
      阿良多麻能 伎倍乃波也之尓 奈乎多弖天 由伎可都麻思自 移乎佐伎太多尼
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3468)
      夜麻杼里乃 乎呂能波都乎尓 可賀美可家 刀奈布倍美許曽 奈尓与曽利鶏米
    • 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 奈乎加介也末乃 可川乃介也 乎々々々

Etymology 6

The long form of 汝 ‎(nare). Compound of 汝 ‎(na) and suffix れ ‎(re).

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana なれ, romaji nare)

  1. second person personal pronoun; you
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3440)
      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
    • c. 913 Kokin Wakashū (#904)
      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

Etymology 7

Compound of 汝 ‎(na) and 貴 ‎(muchi).

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana なむち, romaji namuchi)

  1. second person pronoun; you

Etymology 8

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

Pronoun

汝 ‎(hiragana なむぢ, romaji namuji)

  1. second person personal pronoun; you
    • c. late 9th – mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari
      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 [...]
    • c. late 9th – mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari
      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。[...]」

Etymology 9

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

Pronoun

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

  1. second person pronoun; you
    • c. late 9th – mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari
      「汝（なんぢ）が持ちて侍るかぐや姫たてまつれ。」
    • c. late 9th – mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari
      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[...]」

References

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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