儞

See also: 你, 妳, 您, and 祢

儞 U+511E, 儞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-511E ← 儝 [U+511D] CJK Unified Ideographs 償 → [U+511F]

Translingual

Traditional	儞
Shinjitai (extended)	你
Simplified	你

Han character

儞 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人一火月 (OMFB), composition ⿰亻爾)

Derived characters

• 𭌞, 𭀍, 𭀎, 𠑓

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 120, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1244
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 230, character 8
• Unihan data for U+511E

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 儞 – see 你 (“you; your”). (This character is a variant form of 你).

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	你
Kyūjitai	儞

Alternative forms

• 爾

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 儞

儞

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 你)

1. you

Readings

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}
• Kun: おれ (ore, 儞)、なんじ (nanji, 儞)^{←なんぢ (nandi, 儞, historical)}、しかり (shikari, 儞り)、その (sono, 儞の)、のみ (nomi, 儞)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
儞
おれ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
你 爾 尓

From Old Japanese. Found in use mostly from ancient times until roughly the Heian period,^[1] used to refer in the second person to social inferiors or to insult.^[1][2][3]

The second person sense of you appears to be obsolete in modern Japanese.

Not to be confused with the modern term 俺 (ore) with the first person sense of I, me. See 俺 for that sense.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) おれ [òré] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [o̞ɾe̞]

Pronoun

儞(おれ) • (ore) 

1. (archaic, vulgar) Alternative form of 爾: you

References

1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

儞 • (i>ni) (hangeul 이>니, revised i>ni, McCune–Reischauer i>ni, Yale i>ni)

1. you
2. (be) so, such, right