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那儿 nàr “there” in Chinese

Traditional 那兒

What 那儿 means

  1. there

How to say 那儿

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale那nà4th tone, falling
  • 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

那儿 in a sentence

  1. 我昨天去那儿了。

    Wǒ zuótiān qù nàr le.

    I went there yesterday.

    Sentence #795753 from Tatoeba

  2. 你的在那儿呢。

    Nǐ de zài nàr ne.

    Yours is over there.

    Sentence #334276 from Tatoeba

  3. 那儿是什么天气？

    Nàr shì shénme tiānqì?

    How’s the weather there?

    Sentence #335515 from Tatoeba

How 那儿 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 那 (nà) drawn as one shape
那nàthat; the; those

那 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidThe town 阝 on the right is over there: that.

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 那儿

那 6 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 那儿

Words with 那

那nà · that那些nàxiē · those那个nàge · that one那边nàbian · over there那里nàli · there那么nàme · like that那样nàyàng · that kind刹那chànà · instant

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here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女孩儿nǚháir · girl

More words: Useful Extras

他们tāmen · they你好nǐ hǎo · hello没méi · no这儿zhèr · here男人nánrén · man女人nǚrén · woman第dì · ordinal prefix上面shàngmiàn · above

FAQs

那儿 (nàr) means “there”. It is not on the official HSK lists, but we teach it with HSK 1 because learners need it early.
Say it nàr: nà with a 4th 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, 那儿 is written 那兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type nar with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 那儿 from the suggestions. Typing nar into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
那儿 is not on the official HSK 2.0 word lists. It is a useful extra on our HSK 1 list, because learners need it from the start.

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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.