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Erhua (simplified Chinese: 儿化; traditional Chinese: 兒化; pinyin: érhuà [ɚ˧˥xwä˥˩]); also called erization or rhotacization of syllable finals[1]) is a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the "er" (注音：ㄦ, common words: 耳、尔、儿[2]) sound (transcribed in IPA as [ɚ]) to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. Erhuayin (simplified Chinese: 儿化音; traditional Chinese: 兒化音; pinyin: érhuàyīn) is the pronunciation of "er" after rhotacization of syllable finals. It is most common in the speech varieties of North China, especially in the Beijing dialect, as a diminutive suffix for nouns, though some dialects also use it for other grammatical purposes. The Standard Chinese spoken in government-produced educational and examination recordings features erhua to some extent, as in 哪儿 nǎr ("where"), 一点儿 yìdiǎnr ("a little"), and 好玩儿 hǎowánr ("fun"). Colloquial speech in many northern dialects has more extensive erhua than the standardized language. Southwestern Mandarin dialects such as those of Chong

Erhua - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia R-coloring in Mandarin Chinese syllables Erhua Traditional Chinese 兒化 Simplified Chinese 儿化 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin érhuà Bopomofo ㄦˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ Wade–Giles erh 2 -hua 4 IPA [a ̌ ɚ.xwa ̂ ] Wu Romanization 6 ng-ho Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization yìhfa Jyutping ji4 faa3 IPA [ji˩.fa˧] This article contains special characters . Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the small-sized er ( 儿 ; 兒 ) characters. Erhua ( simplified Chinese : 儿化 ; traditional C

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