儿

See also: ㄦ, ル, 几, and 兒

儿 U+513F, 儿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-513F ← 儾 [U+513E] CJK Unified Ideographs 兀 → [U+5140]

Contents

Translingual

Traditional	兒
Shinjitai	児
Simplified	儿

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

儿 (radical 10, 儿+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 中山 (LU), four-corner 2201₀, composition ⿰丿乚)

1. Kangxi radical #10, ⼉.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/儿
• 尣, 圥, 灮, 皃, 見(见), 完, 羌, 虎, 亮, 竟, 匹

Related characters

• 兒 (Traditional form of 儿)

Descendants

• ㄦ (Zhuyin alphabet)

References

Wikidata

• 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

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儿
Shang		Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a standing person. A radical form of 人.

Also simplified from 兒 (elimination of 臼).

Etymology 1

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 儿 – see 兒 (“child; one's own child; son; etc.”). (This character, 儿, is the simplified form of 兒.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Usage notes

• It may be used to specially write erhua (or the rhotic sound) in traditional Chinese, in contrast with 兒／儿 (ér, “child”).
  • 1950, 林濤 (Lin Tao), 定型化新文字 (Dingshinghua Sin Wenz), 2nd edition, 生活·讀書·新知三聯書店:

    有人把拉丁化新文字的方案跟寫法看做神聖不可侵犯的東西，不准有一點儿改變 […]

    There are some who believe that the Latinxua Sin Wenz scheme and spelling are sacred things that should not be violated, and that there must not be even the tiniest bit of change […]

    r念“儿”只有“兒”“二”“而”這幾個字 […]

    When r is read as 儿, the only candidates are "child", "two", and "and" […]

• When used to represent erhua, it may be subscript.
  • 1968, 趙元任 (Yuen Ren Chao), 語言問題 [Problems in Linguistics], 臺灣商務印書館, page 83:

    固然平常念一個單字的時候，重音的音節在樂音上也是高一點_儿，不過它不一定老是這個樣子。

    Admittedly, when pronouncing these a word, the stressed syllable is, musically speaking, a bit higher-pitched, but this is not necessarily always the case.

Etymology 2

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 儿 – see 人 (“man; person; people; human being; etc.”). (This character, 儿, is a variant form of 人.)

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Japanese

Kanji

儿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. legs radical にんにょう, ひとあし

Readings

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

References

JIS: 5139 Kuten: 4925 Shift JIS: 9958 EUC-JP: D1B9 Frequency: radical Nelson: not listed

New Nelson: 340 Halpern: 4 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: not listed Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 0a2.2

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

Usage notes

儿 appears only as a radical in Japanese.

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

儿 (nhân, nhi)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation