儿

Stroke order

EtymologyEdit

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 characterEdit

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Radical 10 儿

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)

DescendantsEdit

• ㄦ

ReferencesEdit

• 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

HanziEdit

儿 (traditional 兒, Jyutping jan4, Yale yan4)

HanziEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

KanjiEdit

(Radical)

1. legs radical にんにょう, ひとあし

ReadingsEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

Usage notesEdit

儿 appears only as a radical in Japanese.

HanjaEdit

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

HanziEdit

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

SuffixEdit

儿 (simplified, Pinyin ér, traditional 兒)

1. child

   儿童

2. son

   儿子

儿 (simplified, Pinyin r, traditional 兒)

1. non-syllabic diminutive suffix
2. retroflex final, 儿化韵 (Erhua)

   事儿

Usage notesEdit

Not used as an individual character in modern Chinese.

CompoundsEdit

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

HanziEdit

儿 (POJ lî (li⁵), lîn (lin⁵), TLPA lî (li⁵), lîn (lin⁵), Guangdong li², lin²)

ReferencesEdit

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

Han characterEdit

儿 (nhân, nhi)

ReferencesEdit

• Nom Foundation