儿子
ér zi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 兒子
A son: someone's male child. 我儿子 or 我的儿子 is 'my son', and a daughter is 女儿. The 子 has a neutral tone, érzi; and here 儿 is a full syllable, ér, not the r ending heard in words such as 这儿.
Con trai, tức người con là nam. 我儿子 hay 我的儿子 là “con trai tôi”; con gái là 女儿. Chữ 子 đọc thanh nhẹ (érzi), và 儿 ở đây là một âm tiết đầy đủ (ér), không phải âm r cuối như trong 这儿.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 儿/兒 = nhi, 子 = tử · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “儿子” mean?
A son: someone's male child. 我儿子 or 我的儿子 is 'my son', and a daughter is 女儿. The 子 has a neutral tone, érzi; and here 儿 is a full syllable, ér, not the r ending heard in words such as 这儿.
Is “儿子” formal or informal?
儿子 is generally neutral.