ㄦ

See also: ル and 儿

ㄦ	U+3126, ㄦ BOPOMOFO LETTER ER

← ㄥ
[U+3125]

Bopomofo

ㄧ →
[U+3127]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄦ

type: rhotic rhyme
general transliteration: er
keyboard key: -

Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from bottom part of 兒 / 儿 (Mandarin: ér).

Etymology

Derived from bottom part of 兒 / 儿 (Mandarin: ér).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ēr (er¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄦ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ēr
  - Zhuyin: ㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: er
  - Wade–Giles: êrh¹
  - Yale: ēr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: el
  - Palladius: эр (er)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ⁵⁵/

Letter

34th letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
56th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

(general) Sound IPA^(key): /ɻ/ (Pinyin: er), which is present only in Mandarin and Wu.
(when pronounced alone) Sound IPA^(key): /ˀɤɻ/ (Pinyin: er)

References

全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

43rd letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

sound IPA^(key): /ɚ/ (Hutton): er

References

Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198