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U+723E, 爾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-723E

[U+723D]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+723F]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 89, +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一火月大 (MFBK), four-corner 10227, composition )

Derived characters

Descendants

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 691, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19750
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 27, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+723E
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Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 爾, Shang ...

Pictogram (象形) – cloth on a loom, with threads crossing – original form of (OC *niːlʔ, “loom”). Used phonetically.

Etymology 1

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“you; your”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (you).
"that"
Cognate with (, “that”), (OC *njaɡ, “that”) (Schuessler, 2007). See () for more.

Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. (literary or dialectal) you; your
       ěrděng   you (plural)
  2. (literary) so; this way
  3. (literary or dialectal) this; that
       ěr   that day
       ěrhòu   thereafter
  4. (obsolete, of flowers) exuberant
  5. (obsolete) a suffix or word-final particle indicating state, appearance, sound, or manner accompanying a verb
    Synonym: (rán)
  6. (literary) a sentence final particle; merely; only
  7. a surname
    [Cantonese]   ji5 dung1 sing1 [Jyutping]   Derek Yee (Hong Kong film director and actor)
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably related or the same as Etymology 3?”)

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

Etymology 3

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Contraction of 但定 (nā-tiāⁿ, only)?”

Pronunciation


Note: niâ - contraction of 爾爾尔尔 (niā-niā).

Definitions

  1. (Hokkien) that's all; nothing more; is all
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 4

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Vernacular reading of (tān, but; only)?”

Pronunciation

Definitions

  1. (Hokkien) only

Etymology 5

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Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. Used in transcription.
    維亞维亚   Sài'ěrwéiyà   Serbia
    吉斯斯坦吉斯斯坦   'ěrjísīsītǎn   Kyrgyzstan
    呼倫貝呼伦贝   Hūlúnbèi'ěr   Hulunbuir
       'ěrběn   Melbourne
    瓦基瓦基   'ěrwǎjī   Milwaukee
    可夫可夫   'ěrkěfū   Kharkiv
    那格浦那格浦   Nàgépǔ'ěr   Nagpur
    帕麼帕么   Pàmō'ěr   Pall Mall
    克孜克孜   'ěrkèzī   Kyrgyz
Usage notes

It is often used to transcribe the /l/ and /r/ sounds in words of foreign languages not immediately followed by a vowel, e.g. 尼泊爾尼泊尔 (Níbó'ěr, “Nepal”), 斯德哥爾摩斯德哥尔摩 (Sīdégē'ěrmó, “Stockholm”), 克什米爾克什米尔 (Kèshímǐ'ěr, “Kashmir”), 塞爾維亞塞尔维亚 (Sài'ěrwéiyà, “Serbia”), etc.

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.
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