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See also: 児, 儿, 皃, 兇, and 囟

兒 (Kangxi radical 10, 儿+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹難竹山 (HXHU), four-corner 7721₇, composition ⿱臼儿)

• 倪, 唲, 堄, 婗, 𡸣, 𢏱, 掜, 淣, 猊, 𨺙, 晲, 棿, 𤊓, 𤦤, 𫀗, 腉, 𮍩, 𤾆, 睨, 𥓋, 䘽, 𭘉, 䋩, 䍲, 聣, 𦩊, 蜺, 𦦃, 觬, 誽(𰵵), 貎, 輗(𫐐), 𫒪, 𠆔, 𰃓, 䮘, 𩩢, 鯢(鲵), 鶃(𱊄), 𪕨, 齯(𫠜), 𦦿
• 𫐰, 𡮅, 郳, 𫻻, 㪒, 𣣉, 𧡎, 鶂(𱊈/𬷼), 𠓔, 𡥲, 𬎸, 𠒰, 𭀹, 𡸢, 萖, 𦋌, 𤾇, 𮅙, 𠒯, 𮍜, 霓, 𪓬(𱌅), 𠩫, 𭙢, 𤷅, 麑, 䦧(阋), 鬩

• 児 (Japanese shinjitai, also a variant form)
• 儿 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 125, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1365
• Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 272, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5152

Pictogram (象形): an infant with an imperfect cranium (i.e. fontanelle).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-ŋa-j (“small; inferior; offspring”) (STEDT). Cognate with Burmese ငယ် (ngai, “little; young”), Jingpho shangai (ʃă³¹ ŋai³¹, “to give birth”).

According to Schuessler (2007), it may be an area word; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ŋa(i)k (“baby”), Proto-Bahnaric *ŋaː (“baby”), Khmer ង៉ា (ngaa, “infant; baby”). The word is also cognate with 倪 (OC *ŋeː, “small and weak”). 伢 is the southern dialectal form of 兒 (MC nye, “child; son”).

兒

1. (now in compounds) child

   兒童／儿童  ―  értóng  ―  child

   嬰兒／婴儿  ―  yīng'ér  ―  infant child; baby

2. one's own child; son

   兒孫／儿孙  ―  érsūn  ―  child(ren) and grandchild(ren)

   妻兒／妻儿  ―  qī'ér  ―  wife and child(ren)

   一兒一女／一儿一女  ―  yī ér yī nǚ  ―  one son and one daughter

3. (now in compounds) (male) adolescent

   健兒／健儿  ―  jiàn'ér  ―  good athlete

   • 遂習宮中女，皆如馬上兒。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     遂习宫中女，皆如马上儿。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 白居易 (Bai Juyi), 《雜興三首》

     Suì xí gōngzhōng nǚ, jiē rú mǎ shàng ér. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (attributive, of animals) male

   兒馬／儿马  ―  érmǎ  ―  male horse

5. Non-syllabic noun diminutive suffix.

   盆兒／盆儿  ―  pénr  ―  small basin

   小狗兒／小狗儿  ―  xiǎogǒur  ―  puppy

6. Suffix after nouns that does not indicate diminutiveness.

   味兒／味儿  ―  wèir  ―  taste

   汁兒／汁儿  ―  zhīr  ―  juice

   電影兒／电影儿  ―  diànyǐngr  ―  film

7. Suffix added to some verbs or adjectives to form nouns.

   吃兒／吃儿  ―  chīr  ―  food; something to eat

   亮兒／亮儿  ―  liàngr  ―  light

   尖兒／尖儿  ―  jiānr  ―  tip

   短兒／短儿  ―  duǎnr  ―  fault

8. Suffix after a limited number of verbs.

   玩兒／玩儿  ―  wánr  ―  to play

   火兒／火儿  ―  huǒr  ―  to be angry

9. Suffix after certain nouns that result in a different meaning from the unsuffixed form.

   頭兒／头儿  ―  tóur  ―  chief; leader

   白麵兒／白面儿  ―  báimiànr  ―  heroin

   老家兒／老家儿  ―  lǎojiār  ―  one's elders

10. Suffix after reduplicated adjectives.

    慢慢兒／慢慢儿  ―  mànmānr  ―  slowly

• 儿 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" […]

• 儿 may be written as a smaller character.

  • 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 a word, the stressed syllable is, musically speaking, also a bit higher-pitched, but this is not necessarily always the case.

  • 2001, 中華人民共和國教育部, 國家語言文字工作委員會, 第一批異形詞整理表 [The First Series of Standardized Forms of Words with Non-standardized Variant Forms]‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 August 2019, page 11:

    红果儿（红*菓儿） hóngguǒr

兒

1. a surname
2. Alternative form of 齯 / 𫠜 (ní, “teeth grown in old age”)
3. Alternative form of 倪 (“small and weak”)
4. Alternative form of 郳 (ní)

• “兒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

兒

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 児)

1. Kyūjitai form of 児 (“child; young of animals”)
2. Used in personal names.

• Go-on: に (ni)、げ (ge)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)、げい (gei)
• Kun: こ (ko, 兒)
• Nanori: ちご (chigo)

From Middle Chinese 兒 (MC nye).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [a̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [아]

Wikisource

兒 (eumhun 아이 아 (ai a))

1. hanja form^? of 아 (“child”)

From Middle Chinese 兒 (MC ngej).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [je̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [예]

兒 (eumhun 다시 난 이 예 (dasi nan i ye))

1. hanja form^? of 예 (“used in personal names”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]
• Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 30. [4]

兒: Hán Việt readings: nhi^[1][2][3], nghê^[1][4]
兒: Nôm readings: nhẻ^[4]

1. chữ Hán form of nhi (“child”).

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