爾 (ěr)
occasionally/thus (literary)
How 爾 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Traditional
- 爾
- Simplified
- 尔
Components
- 一 one
- 丨 line
- 八 eight/divide
- 巾 turban/scarf
- 㸚 N/A
Common words using 爾
- 偶爾 ǒuěr
- occasionally; once in a while; sometimes
- 凱爾特人 kǎiěrtèrén
- Celt
- 哈爾濱 hāěrbīn
- Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
- 墨爾本 mòěrběn
- Melbourne, Australia
- 愛爾蘭 àiěrlán
- Ireland
- 沃爾瑪 wòěrmǎ
- Wal-Mart, Walmart (retailer)
- 福爾摩斯 fúěrmósī
- Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克・福爾摩斯|歇洛克・福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1]
- 華爾街 huáěrjiē
- Wall Street, New York; by extension, American big business
- 首爾 shǒuěr
- Seoul 서울, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
- 馬爾代夫 mǎěrdàifū
- the Maldives
- 高爾夫 gāoěrfū
- golf
- 不過爾爾 bùguòěrěr
- not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre; nothing out of the ordinary
爾 in a sentence
我們偶爾會出去看電影。
Wǒmen ǒu'ěr huì chūqù kàn diànyǐng.
“We occasionally go out to watch a movie.”
How common is 爾?
爾 is the 220th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 57.8% of all running text.
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