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erhua

erhua

See also: érhuà

English

Noun

erhua ‎(uncountable)

(linguistics) A phonological process that adds rhotic (R-like) sounds in some dialects of Mandarin Chinese.

Translations

a phonological process

Chinese:
Mandarin: 兒化 (zh), 儿化 (zh) ‎(érhuà)
Japanese: 児化 ‎(aruka)

Korean: 아화 ‎(ahwa) (兒化)
Russian: эриза́ция f ‎(erizácija)

Synonyms

(phonological process): erization