Kilo Lingo

儿

ér

Traditional: 兒

#5011 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

child, son; retroflex suffix (in 这儿, 那儿, 哪儿)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 儿

儿

Examples

。

He has a son and a daughter.

？

Where do you live?

。

I'll wait for you right here.

。

She has two sons.

口kǒu。

A small child is standing at the doorway.

儿 (ér) means child or son on its own, as in 儿子 (son) and 女儿 (daughter). It also functions as the famous Beijing-style retroflex suffix, softening words like 这儿 (here), 那儿 (there), and 哪儿 (where).

Related words

儿子

son

哪儿

where (spoken)

那儿

there, over there (spoken)

女儿

daughter

这儿

here, right here

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 儿.

这儿zhè érhere, right here儿子ér zison哪儿nǎ érwhere (spoken)女儿nǚ érdaughter那儿nà érthere, over there (spoken)

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