儿化音 érhuàyīn erhua sound Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 儿化 兒化 érhuà erhua The phonetic process in Mandarin Chinese where the noun suffix 儿 ér merges with the preceding syllable to form a single retroflexed sound.音 yīn noun pronunciation the reading or phonetic value of a character; a specific accent or dialect