Archaic second-person pronoun used to address someone of equal or lower status, often with a derogatory or contemptuous tone. Not to be confused with the modern first-person pronoun おれ.
In classical Japanese, おれ was used as a second-person pronoun.
「爾」は漢文訓読で「おれ」と読まれることがある。
The character 爾 is sometimes read as おれ in kanbun contexts.
you (plural); you all
Archaic kanji form for the second-person pronoun おれ; now extremely rare and mostly encountered in classical texts.
Alternate archaic kanji form; even rarer than 爾.
Originally a second-person pronoun in Old Japanese; later shifted to first-person in modern Japanese. The kanji 爾 and 儞 are ateji or classical borrowings for this reading.