孩兒 (haai4 ji4) — child; kid | Cant.: 細蚊仔, 細路, 細佬哥 | Syno… in Cantonese | HKDictionary

haaiˎ₄孩jiˎ₄兒

简孩儿

Mandarin Pinyin: hai2 er5

Meaning of 孩兒

nounchild; kid | Cant.: 細蚊仔, 細路, 細佬哥 | Synon.: 兒童, 孩子

Characters in 孩兒

final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

Words Containing 孩兒

小孩兒siu2 haai4 ji4

child | Cant.: 細路仔/女

女孩兒neoi5 haai4 ji4

男孩兒naam4 haai4 ji4

boy | [粵]: 男仔

初歸新抱落地孩兒co1 gwai1 san1 pou5 lok6 dei6 haai4 ji4

a new daughter in law is like a new born, meaning a new daughter in law to a family must learn all the new rules about the family she is marrying to from scratch again like a baby [colloquial]

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