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女儿nǚ ér
daughter
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
女儿 | ||
1. Simplified form of 女兒 | ||
女兒 | nǚ'ér | |
1. n. daughter | ||
嫁 女兒 - to give a daughter in marriage; to try to marry off a daughter | ||
您 女兒 芳齡 幾何? - How old is your daughter? honorific | ||
我 那 失散 多年 的 女兒 至今 還 無 著着zhuó落。 - The whereabouts of the daughter I lost years ago are still unknown. | ||
2. n. (Wenzhounese) girl | ||
English > Chinese | ||
daughter | ||
1. 女儿 | ||
2. 女性的子孙 | ||
3. 女性 | ||
4. 女孩儿 | ||
Components | ||
女 | nǜ | |
1. Variant of 汝 | ||
汝 | rǔ | |
1. Ru River, a northern tributary of the Huai River in modern-day southern Henan province. The name also refers to the Hong River in its lower reaches, which now shares a common course with the Ru, as we | ||
儿 | ||
1. Simplified form of 兒 | ||
2. usage. May be used to specially write erhua (or the rhotic sound) in traditional Chinese, in contrast with child. | ||
3. Variant of 人 | ||
人 | rén | |
1. man; person; people | ||
人類 (rénlèi) - humans | ||
那 人 是 誰? (Nà rén shì shéi?) - Who is that person? | ||
嗰個 人jan4-2 係 邊個 嚟 㗎? - Who is that person? | ||
有人 敲門 了。 (Yǒurén qiāomén le.) - Someone knocked on the door. | ||
2. a person associated with a particular identity or trait; -er | ||
主持人 (zhǔchírén) - host | ||
北京人 (Běijīngrén) - Beijinger | ||
香港人 - Hongkonger | ||
3. body | ||
人 在 心 不 在 (rén zài xīn bù zài) - the body is here but the heart is not | ||
這 兩 天 人 不大 舒服。 (Zhè liǎng tiān rén bùdà shūfú.) - I lit. the body haven't been feeling that well these few days. | ||
今天 上午 你 人 在 哪? (Jīntiān shàngwǔ nǐ rén zài nǎ?) - Where have you been this morning? | ||
4. everybody; everyone | ||
人手.一冊 (rénshǒu yīcè) - It's a bestseller. (lit. Everyone has a copy.) | ||
人所共知 (rénsuǒgòngzhī) - common knowledge | ||
5. other people; others | ||
人云.亦云 (rényún yìyún) - to follow the crowd (lit. to say what others say) | ||
害人害己 (hàirénhàijǐ) - to harm others and onself | ||
6. physical, psychological or moral quality or condition; character; personality | ||
就我所知,他 人 不錯。 (Jiùwǒsuǒzhī, tā rén bùcuò.) - As far as I know, he is kind (lit. his personality is not bad). | ||
我 不 知道 他 是 什麼 人。 (Wǒ bù zhīdào tā shì shénme rén.) - I don't know what kind of person he is. | ||
佢 到底 係 咩 人 嚟㗎? - Exactly what kind of person is he? | ||
7. manpower; worker; employee | ||
我們 公司 正 缺 人。 (Wǒmen gōngsī zhèng quē rén.) - Our company is short on manpower right now. | ||
8. talent; person of talent | ||
9. (obsolete) common people; commoner | ||
10. adult; grown-up | ||
長zhǎng大 成人 (zhǎngdà chéng'rén) - to grow up to be an adult | ||
11. (Cantonese) (used as a dummy pronoun); someone; others | ||
12. (Zhao'an Hakka) pluralizes a personal pronoun | ||
?人、你人、佢人 (ngài ngìn, ngì ngìn, kì ngìn) - we, you all, they | ||
13. (obsolete) sexual intercourse | ||
人道 (réndào) - sexual intercourse | ||
人事 (rénshì) - sexual intercourse | ||
14. (obsolete) company; companion; friend | ||
15. artificial; man-made | ||
人禍 (rénhuò) - human disaster | ||
16. (obsolete) human affairs; ways of the world | ||
17. (obsolete) mortal world; earthly word | ||
18. (obsolete) Alternative form of sc=Hani, 仁 (kernel, tr=rén) | ||
19. (obsolete) Alternative form of sc=Hani, 仁 (charity, tr=rén) | ||
20. (obsolete) Alternative form of sc=Hani, 仁 (loving; kind, tr=rén) | ||
21. (Beijing) Lenition of rénjia. | ||
別 磨蹭ceng 啦,人 在zǎi 外頭tou 等 著着zhe 我們 呢! (Bié móceng la, rén zǎi wàitou děng zhe wǒmen ne!) - Stop dilly-dallying. He/She/They is/are waiting for us outside!, M-UIB | ||
哎呀,人 孩子zi 考上shang 哈佛 大學 啦,多 出息xi 呀! (Āiya, rén háizi kǎoshang Hāfó Dàxué la, duō chūxi ya!) - Geez, his/her/their kid got into Harvard University. How promising!, M-UIB | ||
人 別人ren 都 不 吱zī聲sheng兒r,就 他 把 這zhèi 事兒r 給 說 出chu來lai 了。 - , M-UIB, Rén biéren dōu bù zīshengr, jiù tā bǎ zhèi shìr gěi shuō chulai le. | ||
22. (Taishanese) paternal grandmother | ||
兒 | ér | |
1. (now, in compounds) child | ||
兒童 - child | ||
嬰兒 - infant child; baby | ||
2. one's own child; son | ||
兒孫 - child(ren) and grandchild(ren) | ||
妻兒 - wife and child(ren) | ||
一 兒 一 女 - one son and one daughter | ||
3. (now, in compounds) (male) adolescent | ||
健兒 - good athlete | ||
4. (attributive, of animals) male | ||
兒馬 - male horse | ||
5. (Non-syllabic noun diminutive suffix.) | ||
盆兒r - small basin | ||
小狗-兒r - puppy | ||
6. (Suffix after nouns that does not indicate diminutiveness.) | ||
味兒r - taste | ||
汁兒r - juice | ||
電影兒r - film | ||
7. (Suffix added to some verbs or adjectives to form nouns.) | ||
吃兒r - food; something to eat | ||
亮兒r - light | ||
尖兒r - tip | ||
短兒r - fault | ||
8. (Suffix after a limited number of verbs.) | ||
玩兒r - to play | ||
火兒r - to be angry | ||
9. (Suffix after certain nouns that result in a different meaning from the unsuffixed form.) | ||
頭兒r - chief; leader | ||
白麵兒r - heroin | ||
老家兒r - one's elders | ||
10. (Suffix after reduplicated adjectives.) | ||
慢慢mān兒r - slowly | ||
11. =====Usage notes===== | ||
12. Alternative form of 齯 (teeth grown in old age) | ||
13. Alternative form of 倪 (small and weak) | ||
14. Alternative form of 郳 | ||
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Pronunciation
nǚ ér
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