尔

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See also: 爾 and 尓
尔 U+5C14, 尔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C14
← 尓
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尕 →

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

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:

Japanese

Kanji

尔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Alternative form of 爾

Readings

Korean

Hanja

尔 (eumhun 너 이 (neo i))

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References

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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