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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)
| trad. | 俺 | |
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| simp. # | 俺 | |
Fusion of 我們／我们 (wǒmen) (Lü, 1984; Norman, 1988).
俺
| trad. | 俺 | |
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| simp. # | 俺 | |
俺
| trad. | 俺 | |
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| simp. # | 俺 | |
| alternative forms | 安 阿 | |
Possibly from weakening of 阮 (goán) (Tan and Wu, 2011).
俺
| trad. | 俺 | |
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| simp. # | 俺 | |
俺
| Kanji in this term |
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| 俺 |
| おれ Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
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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.[1][2] 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.[3]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | To friends | うち (uchi) 49% | First name 26% | あたし (atashi) 15% |
| In the family | First name 33% | あたし (atashi) 29% | うち (uchi) 23% | |
| In a class | わたし (watashi) 86% | あたし (atashi) 7% | うち (uchi) 6% | |
| To an unknown visitor | わたし (watashi) 75% | あたし (atashi), first name, うち (uchi) 8% each | ||
| To the class teacher | わたし (watashi) 66% | First name 13% | あたし (atashi) 9% | |
| Male | To friends | おれ (ore) 72% | ぼく (boku) 19% | First name 4% |
| In the family | おれ (ore) 62% | ぼく (boku) 23% | うち (uchi) 6% | |
| In a class | ぼく (boku) 85% | おれ (ore) 13% | First name, nickname 1% each | |
| To an unknown visitor | ぼく (boku) 64% | おれ (ore) 26% | First name 4% | |
| To the class teacher | ぼく (boku) 67% | おれ (ore) 27% | First name 3% | |
| Speaker | Situation | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | To friends | うち (uchi) 39% | あたし (atashi) 30% | わたし (watashi) 22% |
| In the family | あたし (atashi) 28% | First name 27% | うち (uchi) 18% | |
| In a class | わたし (watashi) 89% | あたし (atashi) 7% | 自分 (jibun) 3% | |
| To an unknown visitor | わたし (watashi) 81% | あたし (atashi) 10% | 自分 (jibun) 6% | |
| To the class teacher | わたし (watashi) 77% | あたし (atashi) 17% | 自分 (jibun) 7% | |
| Male | To friends | おれ (ore) 87% | うち (uchi) 4% | わたし (watashi), 自分 (jibun) 2% each |
| In the family | おれ (ore) 88% | ぼく (boku), 自分 (jibun) 5% each | ||
| In a class | わたし (watashi) 48% | 自分 (jibun) 28% | ぼく (boku) 22% | |
| To an unknown visitor | ぼく (boku) 36% | 自分 (jibun) 29% | わたし (watashi) 22% | |
| To the class teacher | 自分 (jibun) 38% | ぼく (boku) 29% | わたし (watashi) 22% | |
{{rfdef}}.俺: Hán Nôm readings: em, yêm, êm
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