Kanji Detail for 爾 - "you"

爾

Jinmeiyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning

爾 means "you." Also associated with so, only.
1. You - Second-person pronoun; your.
2. That - Demonstrative pronoun; this; here.
3. So - Indeed; that is correct.
4. Only - Meaning "just" or "merely."
5. State - Attached to describe conditions.
Tattoo check: 爾
- Verified meaning: you
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read あきら, しゅうじ, その, ちかし)
- Also carries these associations: so, only
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
Name readings of 爾

Given names 爾(あきら) 爾(しゅうじ) 爾(その) 爾(みつる)

Surnames 爾(ちかし) 爾(なんじ) 爾(に)
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

you; thou; second person

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

you; that, those; final particle

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

thus; so; like that; you; thou

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

you; that, those; final particle

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

You. (Analects) "Only you and I have this." | A grammatical particle. At the end of phrases. (Mencius) "But is there nothing? Then there is nothing." | 爾爾. Like saying "thus." As in 聊復爾爾 (just so-so).
Onyomi

ji(ジ)

ni(ニ)
Kunyomi

nanji(なんじ)

nomi(のみ)

ore(おれ)

shika(しか)

shikari(しか-り)

sono(その)
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

爻 (ko・majiwaru・meme)
Related Keywords

you so only that state thou thee thy pronoun oneself individual such