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俺 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人大中山 (OKLU), four-corner 24216, composition ⿰亻奄)
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simp. # | 俺 |
Fusion of 我們/我们 (wǒmen) (Lü, 1984; Norman, 1988).
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simp. # | 俺 | |
alternative forms | 安 阿 |
Possibly from weakening of 阮 (goán) (Tan and Wu, 2011).
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simp. # | 俺 |
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Kanji in this term |
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俺 |
おれ Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
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己 爾 儞 |
From Old Japanese. Originally a second person pronoun, as used in the Kojiki of 712 CE. Thought to have gradually changed into a first person pronoun from roughly the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. Some scholars, however, point out the lack of precedent of a second-person pronoun shifting to a first-person pronoun as an etymological discontinuity; they instead explain the first-person usage as an early corruption of 己 (onore, “I, me”), with the ancient second-person usage perhaps deriving of a different root.
Japanese first-person pronouns by speakers and situations according to Yuko Saegusa, Concerning the First Personal Pronoun of Native Japanese Speakers (2009)
Speaker | Situation | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Female | To friends | うち 49% | First name 26% | あたし 15% |
In the family | First name 33% | あたし 29% | うち 23% | |
In a class | わたし 86% | あたし 7% | うち 6% | |
To an unknown visitor | わたし 75% | あたし, first name, うち 8% each | ||
To the class teacher | わたし 66% | First name 13% | あたし 9% | |
Male | To friends | おれ 72% | ぼく 19% | First name 4% |
In the family | おれ 62% | ぼく 23% | うち 6% | |
In a class | ぼく 85% | おれ 13% | First name, nickname 1% each | |
To an unknown visitor | ぼく 64% | おれ 26% | First name 4% | |
To the class teacher | ぼく 67% | おれ 27% | First name 3% |
Speaker | Situation | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Female | To friends | うち 39% | あたし 30% | わたし 22% |
In the family | あたし 28% | First name 27% | うち 18% | |
In a class | わたし 89% | あたし 7% | 自分 3% | |
To an unknown visitor | わたし 81% | あたし 10% | 自分 6% | |
To the class teacher | わたし 77% | あたし 17% | 自分 7% | |
Male | To friends | おれ 87% | うち 4% | わたし, 自分 2% each |
In the family | おれ 88% | ぼく, 自分 5% each | ||
In a class | わたし 48% | 自分 28% | ぼく 22% | |
To an unknown visitor | ぼく 36% | 自分 29% | わたし 22% | |
To the class teacher | 自分 38% | ぼく 29% | わたし 22% |
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.俺: Hán Nôm readings: em, yêm, êm
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