汝

なんじ

Also written 爾

Meanings

1. Pronoun you (referring to someone of equal or lower status)

Kanji

• 汝 you; thou. Read as なんじ.

Example sentences

• 艱難汝を玉にす。
  Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
• 汝殺すなかれ。
  Thou shalt not kill.
• 我こそは汝が父の亡靈なれ。只眞夜中の若千時のみ、閻浮にさまよふ許あれども、娑婆にて犯しゝ罪業の燒き淨めらるゝそれまでは、焦熱地獄の餓鬼の苦しみ。
  I am thy father’s spirit; doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, and, for the day, confin’d to waste in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away.
• 力、英知、忍耐と革新。あなたはこれら全てを持っているのだろうか？その王冠を手にしようとする汝はその重みに耐えることとなる。
  Power, wisdom, patience and innovation. Do you possess all these? Thou who wishes to wear the crown shall bear its burden.

Words containing 汝

• 艱難汝を玉にす (かんなんなんじをたまにす) hardship makes the man
• 汝自らを知れ (なんじみずからをしれ) Know thyself
• 汝自身を知れ (なんじじしんをしれ) Know thyself

And 4 more.

Word lists

• Poetic

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