Character: 汝
Modern (Beijing) reading: rǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: nhaʔ
Classic Old Chinese: nhá
Western Han Chinese: nhá
Eastern Han Chinese: ńhá
Early Postclassic Chinese: ńhó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńhó
Late Postclassic Chinese: ńhó
Middle Chinese: ńö́
Fanqie: 如語
Rhyme class: 語
English meaning : you
Russian meaning[s]: 1) ты; 2) сокр. р. Жухэ (в провинции Хэнань); 3) Жу (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 水. 出弘農盧氏. 還歸山東. 入淮. 從水. 女聲.
Comments: Also used for a homonymous river name (which is the original meaning of the character). Aspiration of the initial is established on circumstantial evidence (reading of the related, but later, graph 你, MC ṇɨ́, in Jianou: ni8). Frequently written as 女 in Early Zhou.
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 8789
Karlgren code: 0094 j-k
Shijing occurrences: 10.1, 10.2, 17.2, 17.3, 27.3
