HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Speaking

聊天儿 liáotiānr “to chat” in Chinese

Traditional 聊天兒

What 聊天儿 means

  1. to chat

How to say 聊天儿

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale聊liáo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own儿rneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

聊天儿 in a sentence

  1. 他们在一边吃喝，一边聊天儿。

    Tāmen zài yìbiān chīhē, yìbiān liáotiānr.

    They are eating and drinking while chatting.

    Sentence #2200413 from Tatoeba

How 聊天儿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 聊 (liáo) with each of its parts in a different colour
聊liáoto chat
  • 耳ear · ěrMeaning part
  • 卯part of the characterSound part
The character 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿rnon-syllabic diminutive suffix
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

How to write 聊天儿

聊 11 strokes · 天 4 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

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聊天儿 (liáotiānr) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 聊天儿 (liáotiānr). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 聊天儿

Words with 聊

聊liáo · to chat聊天liáotiān · to chat无聊wúliáo · bored

Words with 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday聊天liáotiān · to chat夏天xiàtiān · summer冬天dōngtiān · winter

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy

More words: Speaking & Communication

聊liáo · to chat邮件yóujiàn · mail邮箱yóuxiāng · email inbox外语wàiyǔ · foreign language加油jiāyóu · to cheer on提出tíchū · to put forward晚安wǎn'ān · good night祝zhù · to wish (someone well)

FAQs

聊天儿 (liáotiānr) means “to chat”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it liáotiānr: liáo with a 2nd tone, then tiān with a 1st tone, then r with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 聊天儿 is written 聊天兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liaotianr with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 聊天儿 from the suggestions. Typing liaotianr into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
聊天儿 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.