characters in Mandarin can be combined with others to indicate a particular meaning just like prefix and suffix in English. For example, the suffix -er which...

pinyin as er, with some tone, such as 二; èr; 'two', 耳; ěr; 'ear', and 儿; 兒; ér; 'son'. In syllables in which the rhotic coda is added as a suffix to another...

adds r-coloring or the er (儿; 兒 [ɚ]) sound to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. Erhuayin (儿化音; 兒化音) is the pronunciation of "er" after rhotacization...

Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, and in common speech simply Mandarin, more specifically qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard...

museum"), museer ("museums", also loses the Latinate suffix -um); en sko ("a shoe"), skor ("shoes"); en fiende ("an enemy"), fiender ("enemies"). Some third...

adding a suffix (i.e. not an article) to the indefinite form (unless qualified by an adjective; see below). The definite singular ending is -en for common-gender...

Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu (Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'national language') or Huayu (華語; Huáyǔ; 'Chinese language'), is...

Greece and the former Yugoslavia. The term is also used in Mandarin Chinese with the suffix -mén (simplified Chinese: 门; traditional Chinese: 門; lit. 'door'...

standard Mandarin words. Some Hokkien mono-syllabic words are used instead of two-syllable words in Mandarin. The suffix of certain Mandarin words might...

inflectionally combined with er to form the word faster, remains an adjective, while the word teach derivatively combined with er to form the word teacher...