俺

俺 U+4FFA, 俺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FFA
← 俹
[U+4FF9] 		CJK Unified IdeographsCategory:CJK Unified Ideographs block#*0000020474 俻 →
[U+4FFB]
Category:Han script characters#%20

Translingual

Han character

俺Category:Translingual lemmas#人08俺Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#人08俺Category:Translingual symbols#人08俺Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#人08俺Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#人08俺Category:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 人大中山 (OKLU), four-corner 24216, composition ⿰亻奄)Category:Han script characters#人08俺

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 736
  • Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 173, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4FFA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 俺
s05718
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qromʔ, *qoms)Category:Han phono-semantic compounds#人08: semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 奄 (OC *qromʔ).[1]

References

  1. ↑ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Etymology 1

trad. 俺
simp. # 俺

Fusion of 我們／我们 (wǒmen) (Lü, 1984; Norman, 1988).

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Note: gha2 - in certain words.
Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Mandarin lemmas#人08Category:Cantonese lemmas#人08Category:Jin lemmas#人08Category:Northern Min lemmas#人08Category:Hokkien lemmas#人08Category:Wu lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Mandarin hanzi#人08Category:Cantonese hanzi#人08Category:Jin hanzi#人08Category:Northern Min hanzi#人08Category:Hokkien hanzi#人08Category:Wu hanzi#人08Category:Chinese pronouns#人08Category:Mandarin pronouns#人08Category:Cantonese pronouns#人08Category:Jin pronouns#人08Category:Northern Min pronouns#人08Category:Hokkien pronouns#人08Category:Wu pronouns#人08Category:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#人08Category:Chinese terms spelled with 俺#人08

Definitions

俺Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#人08Category:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺

  1. (dialectal MandarinCategory:Mandarin Chinese#人08, Northern MinCategory:Northern Min Chinese#人08) I; me; my
  2. (dialectal MandarinCategory:Mandarin Chinese#人08, exclusive) we; us; our
  3. (Northern MinCategory:Northern Min Chinese#人08, inclusive) we; us; our
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 俺
simp. # 俺

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Chinese entries#人08

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 俺 俺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154) 嚴 (145)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 於驗切 於劔切
Baxter 'jemH 'jaemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiᴇmH/ /ʔɨɐmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiɛmH/ /ʔiɐmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiæmH/ /ʔiɐmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjiamH/ /ʔɨamH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjɛmH/ /ʔiɐmH/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɛmH/ /ĭɐmH/
Bernhard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɛmH/ /ʔi̯ɐmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yàn yàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 jim3 jim3
Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Mandarin lemmas#人08Category:Cantonese lemmas#人08Category:Middle Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Mandarin hanzi#人08Category:Cantonese hanzi#人08Category:Middle Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Chinese adjectives#人08Category:Mandarin adjectives#人08Category:Cantonese adjectives#人08Category:Middle Chinese adjectives#人08Category:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#人08Category:Chinese terms spelled with 俺#人08

Definitions

俺Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#人08Category:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺

  1. (historical dictionaries onlyCategory:Chinese terms with obsolete senses#人08) big

Etymology 3

trad. 俺
simp. # 俺
alternative forms 安
阿

Possibly from weakening of 阮 (goán) (Tan and Wu, 2011).

Pronunciation

Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Hokkien lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Hokkien hanzi#人08Category:Chinese prefixes#人08Category:Hokkien prefixes#人08Category:Chinese pronouns#人08Category:Hokkien pronouns#人08Category:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#人08Category:Chinese terms spelled with 俺#人08

Definitions

俺Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#人08Category:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺

  1. (HokkienCategory:Hokkien Chinese#人08, honorificCategory:Chinese honorific terms#人08) Prefix for kinship terms.
    俺公 [Hokkien]  ―  án-kong [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  grandpaCategory:Hokkien terms with usage examples
  2. (Taiwanese HokkienCategory:Taiwanese Hokkien#人08, inclusive) synonym of 咱 (lán, “we; us”)

Compounds

Etymology 4

trad. 俺
simp. # 俺

Pronunciation

Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Hokkien lemmas#人08Category:Teochew lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Hokkien hanzi#人08Category:Teochew hanzi#人08Category:Chinese pronouns#人08Category:Hokkien pronouns#人08Category:Teochew pronouns#人08Category:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation#人08Category:Chinese terms spelled with 俺#人08

Definitions

俺Category:Chinese lemmas#人08Category:Chinese hanzi#人08Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#人08Category:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺

  1. (HokkienCategory:Hokkien Chinese#人08, TeochewCategory:Teochew Chinese#人08) alternative form of 咱 (“(inclusive) we; us”)

References

Japanese

Kanji

俺

(Jōyō kanji)

Category:Japanese kanji#人08Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#人08Category:Japanese jōyō kanji#人08

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
俺
おれ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
己
爾
儞
Category:Japanese terms spelled with 俺 read as おれ#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれCategory:Japanese terms read with kun'yomi#おれ

From Old JapaneseCategory:Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれCategory:Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese#おれ. 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]

Pronunciation

Category:Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)#おれCategory:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent#おれ

Pronoun

俺(おれ) or 俺(オレ) • (oreCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#俺Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺) Category:Japanese lemmas#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれCategory:Japanese pronouns#おれCategory:Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji#おれCategory:Japanese terms with 1 kanji#おれCategory:Japanese terms spelled with 俺#おれCategory:Japanese single-kanji terms#おれCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#おれCategory:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺

  1. (informalCategory:Japanese informal terms#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれ, men's speechCategory:Japanese men's speech terms#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれ) I, me
    • 1905, Natsume Sōseki, 吾輩は猫である [I Am a Cat]:
      最(さい)前(ぜん)から黙(だま)っていた主人(しゅじん)はこの時(とき)急(きゅう)に写(しゃ)真(しん)が見(み)たくなったものと見(み)えて「おい俺(おれ)にもちょっと覧(み)せろ」と云(い)う
      saizen kara damatte ita shujin wa kono toki kyū ni shashin ga mitaku natta mono to miete “oi ore ni mo chotto misero” to iu
      My owner, who had until then been silent, suddenly seemed to take interest in the photo and asked "Hey, let me see it too."
      Category:Japanese terms with usage examples#おれCategory:Japanese terms with usage examples#おれ
  2. (obsoleteCategory:Japanese terms with obsolete senses#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれ, familiarCategory:Japanese familiar terms#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれ or derogatoryCategory:Japanese derogatory terms#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれ) you
    Near-synonym: 己 (onore)

Usage notes

  • This term is the most casual form of self-address used by men, and is suitable for conversations among close friends or relatives. Conversely, in polite conversation or where polite forms are expected, its usage may be interpreted as disrespectful. For such occasions, 私 (watashi) or 僕 (boku) are preferred.

Derived terms

See also

Japanese first-person pronouns1
First-person pronouns by elementary school pupils (2008)
SpeakerSituation123
Female To friends うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 49%First name 26%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 15%
In the family First name 33%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 29%うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 23%
In a class わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 86%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 7%うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 6%
To an unknown visitor わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 75%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺, first name, うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 8% each
To the class teacher わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 66%First name 13%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 9%
Male To friends おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 72%ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 19%First name 4%
In the family おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 62%ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 23%うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 6%
In a class ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 85%おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 13%First name, nickname 1% each
To an unknown visitor ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 64%おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 26%First name 4%
To the class teacher ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 67%おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 27%First name 3%
First-person pronouns by university students (2009)
SpeakerSituation123
Female To friends うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 39%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 30%わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 22%
In the family あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 28%First name 27%うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 18%
In a class わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 89%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 7%自分(じぶん) (jibun) 3%
To an unknown visitor わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 81%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 10%自分(じぶん) (jibun) 6%
To the class teacher わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 77%あたし (atashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 17%自分(じぶん) (jibun) 7%
Male To friends おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 87%うち (uchi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 4%わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺, 自分(じぶん) (jibun) 2% each
In the family おれ (ore)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 88%ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺, 自分(じぶん) (jibun) 5% each
In a class わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 48%自分(じぶん) (jibun) 28%ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 22%
To an unknown visitor ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 36%自分(じぶん) (jibun) 29%わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 22%
To the class teacher 自分(じぶん) (jibun) 38%ぼく (boku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 29%わたし (watashi)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 22%

1 Japanese first-person pronouns by speakers and situations according to Yuko Saegusa, Concerning the First Personal Pronoun of Native Japanese Speakers (2009)

References

  1. ↑ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林Category:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#俺Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 米田 達郎 (2016), 人称詞オレの歴史的変化‎, archived from the original on 1 December 2021 (in Japanese)
  4. ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  5. ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典Category:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#俺Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#俺 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Category:Japanese personal pronouns#おれCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おれ

Korean

Hanja

俺 • (eom, am)Category:Korean lemmas#엄,%20암Category:Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#엄,%20암Category:Korean hanja#엄,%20암Category:Korean terms with redundant script codes#엄,%20암Category:Korean entries with incorrect language header#엄,%20암Category:Pages with entries#俺Category:Pages with 5 entries#俺 (hangeul 엄, 암)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.Category:Requests for definitions in Korean entries#人08Category:Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#人08

Vietnamese

Han character

俺: Hán Việt readings: yêm[1][2][3][4]Category:Vietnamese Chữ Hán#人08 Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Vietnamese Han characters
俺: Nôm readings: em[1][2][3][5], êm[2]Category:Vietnamese Nom#人08 Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Vietnamese Han characters

  1. chữ Nôm form of em (“younger sibling”)Category:Vietnamese Nom

References

Category:CJK Unified Ideographs block Category:Cantonese adjectives Category:Cantonese hanzi Category:Cantonese lemmas Category:Cantonese pronouns Category:Chinese adjectives Category:Chinese hanzi Category:Chinese honorific terms Category:Chinese lemmas Category:Chinese links with manual fragments Category:Chinese prefixes Category:Chinese pronouns Category:Chinese terms spelled with 俺 Category:Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Chinese terms with obsolete senses Category:Chinese terms with quotations Category:Chinese terms with redundant script codes Category:Han phono-semantic compounds Category:Han script characters Category:Hokkien Chinese Category:Hokkien hanzi Category:Hokkien lemmas Category:Hokkien prefixes Category:Hokkien pronouns Category:Hokkien terms with usage examples Category:Japanese derogatory terms Category:Japanese familiar terms Category:Japanese informal terms Category:Japanese jōyō kanji Category:Japanese kanji Category:Japanese kanji with ancient goon reading えむ Category:Japanese kanji with ancient kan'on reading えむ Category:Japanese kanji with goon reading えん Category:Japanese kanji with historical goon reading えん Category:Japanese kanji with historical kan'on reading えん Category:Japanese kanji with kan'on reading えん Category:Japanese kanji with kun reading おれ Category:Japanese kanji with kun reading われ Category:Japanese lemmas Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters Category:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks Category:Japanese men's speech terms Category:Japanese personal pronouns Category:Japanese pronouns Category:Japanese single-kanji terms Category:Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese Category:Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese Category:Japanese terms read with kun'yomi Category:Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji Category:Japanese terms spelled with 俺 Category:Japanese terms spelled with 俺 read as おれ Category:Japanese terms with 1 kanji Category:Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō) Category:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Category:Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Category:Japanese terms with obsolete senses Category:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Category:Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Category:Japanese terms with usage examples Category:Jin hanzi Category:Jin lemmas Category:Jin pronouns Category:Korean hanja Category:Korean lemmas Category:Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Category:Korean terms with redundant script codes Category:Mandarin Chinese Category:Mandarin adjectives Category:Mandarin hanzi Category:Mandarin lemmas Category:Mandarin links with redundant target parameters Category:Mandarin pronouns Category:Mandarin terms with quotations Category:Middle Chinese adjectives Category:Middle Chinese hanzi Category:Middle Chinese lemmas Category:Northern Min Chinese Category:Northern Min hanzi Category:Northern Min lemmas Category:Northern Min pronouns Category:Pages with 5 entries Category:Pages with entries Category:Requests for definitions in Korean entries Category:Requests for etymologies in Chinese entries Category:Requests for translations of Mandarin quotations Category:Requests for translations of Mandarin usage examples Category:Taiwanese Hokkien Category:Teochew Chinese Category:Teochew hanzi Category:Teochew lemmas Category:Teochew pronouns Category:Teochew terms with quotations Category:Translingual lemmas Category:Translingual symbols Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes Category:Vietnamese Chữ Hán Category:Vietnamese Han characters Category:Vietnamese Nom Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Wu hanzi Category:Wu lemmas Category:Wu pronouns