IDENTITY
儿érson; child
HSK 1Top 120
CORE MEANING
son; child
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- formal
Senses
- 1.sonHSK1
- 2.child; smallness (suffix)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 儿legs radical (ér)
- strokes
- 2
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿰丿乚
USAGE
Common words
儿子érzison
女儿nǚérdaughter
哪儿nǎrwhere
Graded examples
我儿子今年十岁。Wǒ érzi jīnnián shí suì.HSK1
My son is ten this year.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 几
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two legs of a crawling baby — a child.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #120
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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