汝

Glyph origin
.

Etymology 1
Probably related to, whence ,.

Definitions

 * , a northern tributary of the Huai River in modern-day southern Henan province. The name also refers to the in its lower reaches, which now shares a common course with the Ru, as well as a southern tributary of the Hong.

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with and.

Definitions

 * 1)  thou; you second-person pronoun

Etymology 1
→ →

Originally a compound of.

Also written as in older texts, since the namuchi, namuji, and nanji readings likely existed in free variation until the development of the  grapheme.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Etymology 2
From.

Derived from.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Etymology 3
From.

Possibly cognate with second-person singular informal pronoun 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Etymology 4
Sound shift from reflexive pronoun,.

Pronunciation

 * Pronunciation for pronoun senses unknown.

Pronoun

 * : you
 * : me, myself, himself, herself, itself, oneself

Interjection

 * 1)   you!

Etymology 5
→ → Shift from  of the same meaning.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Etymology 6
The nominalization of honorific verb.

Possibly also analyzable as a compound of.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Hanja

 * 1) you
 * 2) the name of water, river

Etymology 1
Originally a first person pronoun. Later became a second person pronoun, as is often seen in Japanese. Compare. Also found in some instances as a self-reference,,. This sense is more commonly spelled when used in isolation.

Pronoun

 * 1)  I, me
 * 2)  one, oneself, itself
 * 3)  you, thou

Etymology 2
From.

Pronoun

 * 1)  you, thou

Etymology 3
Cognate with and.

Pronoun

 * 1)  you, thou

Etymology 4
The nominalization of the of honorific verb.

Alternatively, analyzable as a compound of 🇰🇲.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Usage notes
More honorific than masi (see Etymology 5 below), but less honorific than mi1masi (see Etymology 6 below).

Etymology 5
The nominalization of the of honorific verb.

Alternatively, a shortening of imasi (see Etymology 3 above).

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Usage notes
Less honorific than both imasi (see Etymology 4 above) and mi1masi (see Etymology 6 below).

Etymology 6
Compound of.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou

Usage notes
More honorific than both imasi (see Etymology 4 above) and masi (see Etymology 5 above).

Etymology 7
Possibly a borrowing from, compare modern 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you, thou