you

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

女 sound component

  Sound component

  

woman

Evolution

汝 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
汝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
汝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
汝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

you; thou

Most common words with 汝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

thou

汝南

Ru'nan county in Zhumadian 駐馬店|驻马店[Zhù​mǎ​diàn], Henan

汝州

Ruzhou county level city in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山[Píng​dǐng​shān], Henan

汝州市

Ruzhou county level city in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山[Píng​dǐng​shān], Henan

汝阳

Ruyang county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*naʔ

nyoX

you (sg.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.7368% of movies

3283rd most common character in movies

2547th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+6C5D

Shuowen

“汝,水。出弘農盧氏還歸山,東入淮。从水,女聲。”


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