儿化韵
ér​huà​yùn

rhotacized final

儿 r, ér child Simplified

Simplified form of 兒. Variant form of 人, a pictograph of a human.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Simplified (1)

党

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

禿

說文解字

《說文》：“儿，仁人也。古文奇字人也。象形。孔子曰：在人下，故詰屈。”

Sources

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化 huà change

Pictograph of a right-side up person (亻) and an upside-down person (𠤎), depicting the meaning "turn around" or "transform".

Components

亻
亻 Iconic component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

𠤎
𠤎 Iconic component
huà upside-down person

Depicts an upside-down person.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 7 verified)

花华货靴讹貨訛

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartxwaeHqʷʰˤ<r>aj-s transform

說文解字

《說文》：“化，教行也。从，从人，亦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
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Baxter-Sagart
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Academia Sinica
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

韵 yùn rhyme Simplified

Of equal 匀 tone 音; 匀 also provides the pronunciation

Components

音
音 Meaning component
yīn sound
匀
匀 SoundMeaning component
yún equal

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthwinH[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s (no pre-Qín exx.)rhyme
Zhengzhangɢʷins

Sources

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Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang

兒 r, ér son Traditional

Pictograph of a child (人) with an opening in the top of its head (囟). Represents the soft spot (fontanel) at the top of young infant heads. The 囟 component is written like 臼.

Components

囟
囟 Iconic component
xìn fontanel

Depicts the gap between the bones in an infant skull.

人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person

Depicts a human.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Spring and Autumn ~600 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 6 verified)

睨阋猊鲵鯢鬩

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

倪霓

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartnyeŋe child

說文解字

《說文》：“兒，孺子也。从儿，象小兒頭囟未合。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.687
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Unicode
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Baxter-Sagart
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Academia Sinica
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

韻 rhyme Traditional

Components

音
音 Meaning component
yīn sound
員
員 Sound component
yuán member

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthwinH[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s (no pre-Qín exx.)harmony; rhyme

說文解字

《說文新附》：“韻，和也。从音，員聲。裴光遠云：‘古與均同。’未知其審。”

Sources

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Academia Sinica
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Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)