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Trad. 乾兒
- adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Trad. 兒化
- (Chinese phonetics) to rhotacize a syllable final; to apply r-coloring to the final of a syllable
Trad. 兒女
- children; sons and daughters
- a young man and a young woman (in love)
Trad. 邊兒
- side
- edge
- margin
- border
- boundary
- proximity
- thread (of ideas, plots etc)
- see also 邊|边[bian1]
Trad. 花兒
- style of folk song popular in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia
- CL:首[shou3]
Trad. 哪兒
- where?
- wherever; anywhere; somewhere
- (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
Trad. 座兒
- rickshaw seat (Beijing dialect)
- patron (of teahouse, cinema)
- passenger (in taxi, rickshaw etc)
Trad. 雛兒
- newly hatched bird
- fig. inexperienced person
- fig. chick (slighting term for young woman)
- bimbo
Trad. 事兒
- one's employment
- business
- matter that needs to be settled
- (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding
- trying
- troublesome
- erhua variant of 事[shi4]
- CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
Trad. 托兒
- (coll.) shill; tout; phony customer who pretends to buys things so as to lure real customers
Trad. 家兒
- (old) child, particularly referring to the son who resembles his father
Trad. 散座兒
- erhua variant of 散座[san3 zuo4]
- single seat (in theater)
- irregular passenger (in rickshaw)
Trad. 出攤兒
- (coll.) to set up a vendor's stall (in the street or at a night market etc)
Trad. 胖墩兒
- (coll.) short, fat person (esp. a kid)
- a roly-poly
Trad. 臭子兒
- dead bullet (one that does not fire)
- a bad move (in a game of chess)
Trad. 借單兒
- receipt for a loan
- written confirmation of a debt
- IOU
Trad. 刺兒頭
- troublesome person; difficult person to deal with