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儿子

ér zi

HSK 1 · word 96 of 3,000

Meaning

• son

Example sentence

Characters in 儿子

• 儿 ér child; the -r ending added to nouns in northern speech
• 子 zi noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair"

儿 child plus the noun suffix 子. Here 儿 is a real character meaning child, not the northern -r ending it also writes.

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