兒

See also: 児 and 儿

Translingual

shinjitai	児
simplified	儿
traditional	兒

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): an infant with an imperfect cranium (i.e. fontanelles). The 臼 here is a variant/corruption of 囟.

Han character

兒 (radical 10 儿+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹X竹山 (HXHU), four-corner 7721₇, composition ⿱臼儿)

Descendants

• 児 儿

References

• KangXi: page 125, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1365
• Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 272, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5152

See also

• 子

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Chinese

		-
trad.		兒
simp.		儿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ér (er²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄦˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yì
• Min Nan (POJ): lî / lîn
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hher (T3); nyi (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ér
    • Zhuyin: ㄦˊ
    • Wade-Giles: êrh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: elr
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yì
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ji¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lî / lîn
    • Tâi-lô: lî / lîn
    • IPA (Taipei): /li²³/, /lin²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li¹³/, /lin¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hher (T3); nyi (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦəɻ²³/, /ȵi²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (兒, reconstructed)
Character (兒), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 日 (38) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 汝移切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ȵiᴇ/	/ȵʑie̯/	/ȵie/	/ȵiɛ/	/ȵiə̆/	/ȵʑǐe/	/ȵʑjɛ/
Character (兒), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 五稽切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋei/	/ŋiei/	/ŋei/	/ŋei/	/ŋɛj/	/ŋiei/	/ŋɛi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (兒, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
兒								ér								‹ nye ›								/*ŋe/								child
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
兒					2748					兒					支					0					倪					/*ŋeː/
兒					2757					兒					支					0					兒					/*ŋje/

Noun

兒

1. child
   • 兒童 / 儿童  ―  értóng  ―  child
2. son
   • 兒子 / 儿子  ―  érzǐ  ―  son

Usage notes

Not used as an individual character in modern Chinese.

Suffix

兒 (r)

1. non-syllabic diminutive suffix
2. final retroflex syllable ("ér") added in Mandarin dialect ( see 兒化音 Erhua )

Compounds

Derived terms

兒童 兒子 孩兒 女兒 玩兒 筷兒 小兒科 嬰兒車 幼兒園 包干兒 冰棍兒 一點兒 鄉下老兒

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Japanese

shinjitai	児
simplified	儿
traditional	兒

Kanji

兒

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 児)

1. child
2. young of animals

Readings

• Goon: に (ni), げ (ge)
• Kan’on: じ (ji), げい (gei)
• Kun: こ (ko)
• Nanori: ちご (chigo)

References

JIS: 513B Kuten: 4927 Shift JIS: 995A EUC-JP: D1BB Frequency: kyūjitai Nelson: 3850

New Nelson: 357 Halpern: 2625 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: not listed Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 4c3.3

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

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Korean

Hanja

兒 (a,ye) (hangeul 아,예, revised a,ye, McCune-Reischauer a,ye)

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Compounds

• 孤兒院 (고아원, goawon)

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Vietnamese

Han character

兒 (nhi, nghê, nhẻ)

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