兒
rerér

son

儿 (兒) r frequency
diminutive modal particle
non-syllabic diminutive suffix indicating smallness, intimacy, or a lighthearted tone

那个小孩儿真漂亮。

nà gè xiǎo​hái r zhēn piào​liang.

That kid is so cute.

retroflex final pronoun
non-syllabic retroflex final phoneme used to modify a word's meaning, location, or grammatical category

请问，图书馆在哪儿？

qǐng​wèn, tú​shū​guǎn zài nǎ​r?

Excuse me, where is the library?

儿 (兒) er
er-suffix noun
a rhotacized suffix commonly used in Northern Mandarin dialects to add an 'er' sound to the end of a word, often without changing the meaning significantly.

这件衣服的色儿很正。

zhè jiàn yī​fu de shǎi er hěn zhèng.

The color of this garment is very pure.

儿 (兒) ér
child noun
a young person or offspring in general

这些儿女都已成家立业。

zhè​xiē ér nǚ dōu yǐ chéng​jiā​lì​yè.

These children have all settled down and started their own careers.

son verb
a male child in relation to his parents

养儿防老是中国的传统观念。

yǎng ér fáng​lǎo shì Zhōng​guó de chuán​tǒng guān​niàn.

Raising children to support oneself in old age is a traditional Chinese value.

Frequency
Character
Written text
192nd most common 1074.0 per million
Movie subtitles
76th most common 2250.2 per million appears in 97% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
195.8 per million appears in 41% of films
Written text
234.9 per million

Details
Simplified
儿
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5152

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)