爾

Descendants

 * 尔

Glyph origin
– cloth on a loom, with threads crossing – original form of. Used phonetically.

Etymology 1

 * “you; your”
 * From.


 * "that"
 * Cognate with, . See  for more.

Definitions

 * 1)  you; your
 * 2)  so; this way
 * 3)  this; that
 * 4)  exuberant
 * 5)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  this; that
 * 2)  exuberant
 * 3)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  exuberant
 * 2)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  ; merely; only
 * 1)  ; merely; only

Definitions

 * 1)  that's all; nothing more; is all

Definitions

 * 1)  only

Usage notes
It is often used to transcribe the and  sounds in words of foreign languages not immediately followed by a vowel, e.g., , , , etc.

Etymology 1
From.

Affix

 * 1)  thou, you
 * 2)  that

Etymology 2
From, found in use mostly from ancient times until roughly the , used to refer in the second person to social inferiors or to insult.

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

Pronoun

 * 1)   you

Usage notes

 * Often used to insult. Compare modern 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Not to be confused with the modern first person pronoun.

Pronoun

 * 1)   you