ㄦ

See also: ル and 儿

ㄦ U+3126, ㄦ BOPOMOFO LETTER ER ← ㄥ [U+3125] Bopomofo ㄧ → [U+3127]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄦ

1. type: rhotic rhyme
2. general transliteration: er
3. keyboard key: -

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from bottom part of 兒／儿 (Mandarin: ér).

Etymology

Derived from bottom part of 兒／儿 (Mandarin: ér).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ēr (er¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄦ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ēr
    • Zhuyin: ㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: er
    • Wade–Giles: êrh¹
    • Yale: ēr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: el
    • Palladius: эр (er)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ⁵⁵/

Letter

1. 34th letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 56th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (general) Sound IPA^(key): /ɻ/ (Pinyin: er), which is present only in Mandarin and Wu.
2. (when pronounced alone) Sound IPA^(key): /ˀɤɻ/ (Pinyin: er)

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

1. 43rd letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /ɚ/ (Hutton): er

References

• Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198