Questions tagged [erhuayin]
儿化音 is a phonological process that adds the "ér" (儿) sound (transcribed in IPA as [ɻ]) to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese
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Understanding how to pronounce the “er” at end of words
I know how to pronounce stuff like:
玩儿 : war
哪儿 : nar
男孩儿: nan har
But I recently came across 小偷儿. How would you pronounce that? Would it just sound like “xiao tour” like the English word “tour”?...
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Is it incorrect to use 儿化 (érhuà) inside a word, e.g., 门儿口, and 小孩儿子 and 玩儿具?
Sometimes we use 儿化 (érhuà) without it changing the meaning of the word, e.g., 门 (mén; door, gate) becomes 门儿 (ménr).
However, some Chinese words contain 儿化-izable words, such as 门口 (ménkǒu; doorway, ...
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Erhua and reduplication
If I want to say "a little" of something I might say 一点儿 yìdiǎnr. Or I might say 一点点 yìdiǎndiǎn. But I do not feel right using erhua with reduplication.
It sounds wrong to me (and maybe I am just ...
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Neutral tone and erhua (儿化) working as a word distinguisher
I know there are some words in which the use of neutral tone distinguish them the word from their non neutral equivalent, like：
东西 - dong1xi1 - from east to west
东西 - dong1xi - thing
虾子 - xia1zi3 - ...
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Chinese views on Erhua
I'm already well acquainted with erhua (儿化) in putonghua, essentially appending 儿 to the ends of words (or reading it when 儿 isn't written, as sometimes people do with 花 or 八点 etc). Many of these ...
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How to distinguish the difference between the pronunciation of different erhuayin?
For example,
小黄儿, 小欢儿, 小花儿;
唱歌儿, 树根儿, 一横儿;
What's the difference?
I can't understand the difference between each phonetic symbol in the same row in the table below:
The picture is from ...
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How is the 儿 ending pronounced outside Beijing?
When Beijingers use words like 一点儿, the ending syllable will be very pronounced as far as I understand, and I'm aware that this is a typical feature of the Beijing dialect. But how is it pronounced in ...
