儿

See also 兒, and 几

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	儿児
simplified	儿儿
traditional	儿兒

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a standing person. Compare 人.

Also Simplified from 兒 (臼 → [[ ]]) (elimination of 臼).

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

儿 (radical 10 儿+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 中山 (LU), four-corner 2201₀)

1. Kangxi radical 儿
2. human
3. son, child (as simplification of 兒)

References

• KangXi: page 123, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1336
• Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 264, character 4
• Unihan data for U+513F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

儿 (traditional 兒, Yale yan4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

儿 (POJ yîn, Guangdong ngin², zin² [Hailu])

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary

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Japanese

shinjitai	児
simplified	儿
traditional	兒

Kanji

儿 (Radical)

1. legs radical にんにょう, ひとあし

Readings

• On: じん (jin), にん (nin)
• Kun: がい (gai), にんにょう (ninnyou)

References

JIS: 5139 Kuten: 4925 Shift JIS: 9958 EUC-JP: D1B9 Frequency: radical Nelson: not listed

New Nelson: 340 Halpern: 4 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: not listed Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 0a2.2

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

儿 appears only as a radical in Japanese.

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Korean

Hanja

儿 (hangeul 인, 궤, revised in, gwe, McCune-Reischauer in, kwe)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

儿 (traditional 兒, pinyin ér (er2), rén (ren2), Wade-Giles erh², jen²)

Compounds

• 儿歌 érgē - nursery rhyme
• 儿女 érnǚ - children, son(s) and daughter(s)
• 儿童 értóng - child, children
• 儿子 érzi - son
• 女儿 nǚ'ér - daughter
• 儿化