Érhuà (儿化) refers to the addition of the "ér"(儿) noise to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. It is most common in the speech of Northeastern China, in particular Beijing. The Standard Mandarin spoken in government-produced educational and examination recordings features erhua to some extent, as in 哪儿(nǎr), 一点儿(yìdiǎnr), or 好玩儿(hǎowánr), though Southern Chinese would usually avoid even these words, replacing them with 哪里(nǎlǐ), 一点儿(yìdiǎn), or 好玩(hǎowán). This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... Northeastern Mandarin or Northeast Chinese Dialect is a variety of Mandarin Chinese, known collectively as Dongbeihua (Traditional Chinese: 東北話; Simplified Chinese: 东北话; pinyin: DōngbÄ›ihuà; literally Northeast Speech/Language). Northeastern dialect is very similar to the Beijing dialect, upon which Standard Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua) is based. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Standard Mandarin is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore. ...

Examples

• 西门(xīmén) -> 西门儿(xīménr), pronounced "xīmér"
• 一瓶(yìpíng) -> 一瓶儿(yìpíngr), pronounced "yìpírng"
• 公园(gōngyuán) -> 公园儿(gōngyuánr), pronounced "gōngyuár"
• 小孩(xǐaohái) -> 小孩儿(xǐaoháir), pronounced "xǐaoháir"