兒 (ji4 | er2 er1 ni2 er5) : child, son

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兒

ji4

er2 er1 ni2 er5

[1] [n] baby; child
[2] [n] son
[3] oneself; referring to oneself when addressing parents [4] final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

Stroke count: 8

Level: 1

Radical: 儿 (#10)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

兒 / 儿

This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 4th Mar 2010 16:24

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育兒 juk6 ji4 yu4 er2 = parenting

科學育兒 fo1 hok6 juk6 ji4 ke1 xue2 yu4 er2 = The science of parenting

兒子 ji4 zi2 er2 zi5 = son 國

魚兒 jyu4 ji4 yu2 er2 (Taiwan), yur2 (PRC) = [n] fish; fishes 國

女兒 neoi5 ji4 nv3 er2 = daughter 國

玩兒 wun6 ji4 wanr2 = to play (with a toy) 國

乞兒 hat1 ji4*1 = beggar 粵

孩兒 haai4 ji4 hai2 er5 = child 國

兒童 ji4 tung4 er2 tong2 = child

一點兒 jat1 dim2 ji4 yi1 dianr3 = a bit, a little 國
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我覺得普通話嘅兒化好惡聽粵
I think that erhua in Mandarin sounds horrible.
[Lit. I feel Putonghua [possessive particle] erhua very terrible-listen]

他把好些書存放在我這兒了。國
He has left a number of books with me.

這兒敗家子只會跟一班豬朋狗友吃喝嫖賭！國
The only thing this good-for-nothing son does is to go around with some bad company and engage in all kinds of vice activities.

董先生偷拍女朋友的十來歲的女兒洗澡國
Mr. Dong is taking pictures of his girlfriend's teenage daughter bathing without her knowledge.

因為走投無路而被逼賣兒鬻女
Having no other way out, they were forced to sell their children.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 兒
Unicode code for this character: U+5152 (off-site link)

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