那儿
nà r
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 那兒
That place, over there: the everyday word for 'there' in northern speech. It follows 在 or a verb of motion: 书在那儿 'the book is over there', 去那儿 'go there'. Say it as one syllable, nàr, since 儿 only adds an r. 那里 means the same and is preferred in writing and in the south.
Chỗ đó, đằng kia: cách nói “ở đó” thường ngày của người miền Bắc Trung Quốc. Đứng sau 在 hoặc động từ chỉ sự di chuyển: 书在那儿 (sách ở đằng kia), 去那儿 (đi đến đó). Đọc liền thành một âm nàr, 儿 chỉ thêm âm r. Trong văn viết và ở miền Nam Trung Quốc người ta hay nói 那里.
PronounRegister: 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 · 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 “那儿” mean?
That place, over there: the everyday word for 'there' in northern speech. It follows 在 or a verb of motion: 书在那儿 'the book is over there', 去那儿 'go there'. Say it as one syllable, nàr, since 儿 only adds an r. 那里 means the same and is preferred in writing and in the south.
Is “那儿” formal or informal?
那儿 is generally neutral.