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The character "侬" originated as a personal pronoun in classical Chinese, constructed as a phono-semantic compound with the "人" radical signifying a person and the phonetic component "农" in its simplified form, corresponding to "農" in the traditional form "儂". Initially used to mean "I" or a general person in early texts, its semantic application shifted over time, particularly in Wu dialects where it adopted the meaning of "you" as a second-person pronoun, while its structural reliance on the human radical and phonetic element for "nóng" remained consistent.
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侬从哪里来？
这是侬的书吗？
侬今天心情很好。
我知道侬的意思。
侬是否喜欢这里？
侬的家乡在哪里？
侬应该多注意身体。
如果侬觉得累，就休息一下。