erhua

See also: érhuà

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 兒化／儿化 (érhuà).

Noun

erhua (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) A phonological process that adds rhotic (R-like) sounds in some dialects of Mandarin Chinese. The suffix usually changes the pronunciation of the syllable
Examples

In Mandarin 今 (jīn) is pronounced /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
but 今兒／今儿 (jīnr) with the erhua is pronounced /t͡ɕiə̯ɻ⁵⁵/.

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