erhua

See also: érhuà

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 兒化／儿化 (érhuà).

Noun

erhua (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) A phonological process that adds rhotic (R-like) sounds in some dialects of Mandarin Chinese.

Synonyms

• (phonological process): erization

Translations

a phonological process

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兒化／儿化 (zh) (érhuà), 儿化 (zh) (érhuà)

• Japanese: 児化 (aruka)
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• Korean: 아화 (ahwa) (兒化)
• Russian: эриза́ция f (erizácija)

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