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The character "你" for the second-person singular pronoun developed from the classical Chinese term "爾", which functioned as a pronoun meaning "you". To explicitly denote a human referent, the person radical 亻 was affixed to "尔", a common variant form of "爾", resulting in the compound character "你" that combines the semantic element for person with a phonetic component derived from the original term. While "爾" gradually shifted toward demonstrative or adverbial uses in classical texts, such as meaning "that" or "so", the specialized form "你" became the standard written representation for addressing an individual.
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你今天很忙吗？
你喜欢喝茶吗？
你经常去公园散步。
你如果来，我就告诉你。
你学中文学得很快。
你昨天买的书很有趣。
你被老师表扬了。
当你听到这个消息时，你会很高兴。