Dong Chinese dictionary

ěr

you

Simplified form of 爾. Pictograph of a sharp weapon with a sharp head and tail decorations on the end. Similar in origin to 朿. Original meaning unclear.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

尔 (爾)

ěr

you; that, those; final particle; thus; so; like that; thou

尔 (尒)

ěr

variant of 爾|尔[ěr]

Most common words with 尔

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	尔	thus
	偶尔	occasionally
	高尔夫	golf (loanword)
	哈尔滨	Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龍江\|黑龙江[Hēilóngjiāng] in northeast China
	比尔	Bill (name)