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]

Translingual

Traditional 兒
Shinjitai 児
Simplified 儿
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

Descendants

  • ㄦ (Zhuyin alphabet)

References

  • 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

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; son; etc.”).
(This character, 儿, is the simplified form of 兒.)
Notes:

Usage notes

  • 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。
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

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.)

Japanese

Kanji

儿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. legs radical にんにょう, ひとあし

Readings

References

  • 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.

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

儿 (nhân, nhi)

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References

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