這

這 (radical 162, 辵+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜卜一口 (YYMR), four-corner 3030₆, composition ⿺辶言)

• KangXi: page 1258, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38889
• Dae Jaweon: page 1743, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3844, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9019

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋrans) : semantic 辶 (“walk”) + phonetic 言 (OC *ŋan).

The character was originally a verb meaning “to meet”, whose modern pronunciation is yàn. It was later borrowed for the proximal demonstrative “this/here”, by a confusion in medieval handwriting with 遮 (zhē, “this”).

First attested in the Tang Dynasty; etymology unclear. Proposed etymologies:

• From 者 (OC *tjaːʔ, “one which”) (Lü, 1985). Wang (1990) notes that 者 always occurs after what is referred to, where as 這 always before.

  者 (OC *tjaːʔ, “one which”) > 者 (MC t͡ɕia^X, “this (possessive case)”) > 者 (MC t͡ɕia^X, “this (general demonstrative)”) > Mandarin 這 (zhè).

• From 之 (OC *tjɯ, “this; it”) (Wang, 1990). Norman (1988) notes that this derivation would be phonologically problematic.

這

1. this; these

   看這本書。 / 看这本书。  ―  Kàn zhè běn shū.  ―  Read this book.

   這是一個老故事。 / 这是一个老故事。  ―  Zhè shì yī ge lǎo gùshì.  ―  This is an old story.

   • 這不是你的書，這是我的書。 [MSC, trad.]
     这不是你的书，这是我的书。 [MSC, simp.]

     Zhè bù shì nǐ de shū, zhè shì wǒ de shū. [Pinyin]

     This is not your book, it's mine.

   • 這個就很好，就買這個吧。 [MSC, trad.]
     这个就很好，就买这个吧。 [MSC, simp.]

     Zhè ge jiù hěn hǎo, jiù mǎi zhè ge ba. [Pinyin]

     This is really good. Buy this one.

2. Synonym of 這樣／这样 (zhèyàng, “like this; such”).

   這可不行！ / 这可不行！  ―  Zhè kě bùxíng!  ―  This is not okay!

3. at this moment; right away; at once

   我這就去。 / 我这就去。  ―  Wǒ zhè jiù qù.  ―  I'll go now.

4. filler particle usually used when the speaker is tongue-tied.
5. meaningless particle in a sentence.

• 那 (nà, “that, those”)

Original meaning of this character. It is part of the 迎 (OC *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs, “to face, to meet”) word family; see there for more.

這

1. ^† to welcome; to greet; to receive

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. crawl, creep, grovel
2. this

As borrowing from Middle Chinese 這 (MC ŋˠiᴇn^H):

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: げん (gen)

As borrowing from Mandarin 這 (zhè):

• Kan’yō-on: しゃ (sha)

Applied readings from Old Japanese:

• Kun: むかえる (mukaeru, 這える)^{←むかへる (mukaferu, historical)}; この (kono, 這); これ (kore, 這); はう (hau, 這う)^{←はふ (fafu, historical)}

• 這 (しゃ)個 (こ), 這 (しゃ)箇 (こ) (shako)
• 這 (しゃ)般 (はん) (shahan)
• 這 (しゃ)裏 (り) (shari)

這 • (jeo, eon) (hangeul 저, 언)

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這: Hán Nôm readings: giá, gió

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