Saturday, May 10, 2014

儞 ㄋ一ˇ ni 8-O

In Discussions on horses (馬上談), a segment of Dongpo Chan Xi Ji 東坡禪喜集, I came across this Chinese character that I have never seen in my life 儞:  
蘇東坡與佛印出城遊行。佛印謂坡曰。儞在馬上十分好。一似一尊佛也。坡答曰。儞穿一領玉衆裟。在馬上好。似一堆太牛屎也。印云。我口出佛。儞口出屎。隨從人呵呵大笑。
This is a character I couldn't even find when attempting to type it out independent of the input methods. Since I couldn't type it out, it's impossible to google it and verify its existence using the digital method.

Regardless, based on the information about the radical and the number of strokes, I found that 儞 is the archaic form of 你--sort of thou to you (singular format).

See the following more information on 儞:

  1. http://dict2.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt
  2. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%84%9E