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汝

Mandarin · pinyin rǔ

thou

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汝: rǔ · you

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3 · ru3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

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character · Etymology 1

(～水, ～河) Ru River, a northern tributary of the Huai River in modern-day southern Henan province. The name also refers to the Hong River in its lower reaches, which now shares a common course with the Ru, as well as a southern tributary of the Hong.
a surname

character · Etymology 2

(literary or coastal Min) thou; you (second-person pronoun)

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