尔

See also: 爾 and 尓

尔 U+5C14, 尔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C14 ← 尓 [U+5C13] CJK Unified Ideographs 尕 → [U+5C15]

Translingual

Traditional	爾
Shinjitai (extended)	尓
Simplified	尔

Han character

尔 (Kangxi radical 42, 小+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓火 (NF), composition ⿱⺈小)

Derived characters

• 你, 妳, 弥, 𢘝, 𪭧, 沵, 狝, 迩, 𪱾, 𪸞, 珎, 𣍨, 祢, 𬏂, 𥅘, 䂧, 称, 𥙧, 𫂼, 𧉰, 𧦽, 趂, 䟢, 𨋎, 𨤧, 鿟, 鉨(鿭), 𠒤, 𫵇, 𩲪, 𩶗
• 覙(𫌨), 𡮠, 𩿥, 玺, 𫊱, 𫒂, 𨤰, 𥬞, 𨳴, 𩜖, 𫐪, 𮔞, 𪭁, 𦵖, 𥭫, 𤶤, 寳

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 297, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7479
• Dae Jaweon: page 591, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 562, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5C14

Chinese

Glyph origin

Variant of 尒, which is in turn an abridgement of 爾.

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 爾 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 尔 – see 爾 (“you; your; so; this way; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 爾).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

尔

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Alternative form of 爾

Readings

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)
• Kun: なんじ (nanji)^{←なんぢ (nandi, historical)}、それ (sore, 尔れ)、その (sono, 尔の)

Korean

Hanja

尔 (eumhun 너 이 (neo i))

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 尔

Vietnamese

Han character

尔: Hán Việt readings: nhĩ, nễ
尔: Nôm readings: ne, nhĩ, nhẽ, nẻ, nể

1. Variant of 爾, see there for more details.

References

• Nom Foundation