HSK 6 · Family

婴儿 yīng'ér “baby” in Chinese

Traditional 嬰兒

What 婴儿 means

  1. baby
  2. infant

Measure word 个 gè · 一个婴儿 yí ge yīng'ér

How to say 婴儿

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale婴yīng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale儿ér2nd tone, rising

婴儿 in a sentence

  1. 婴儿在睡觉。

    Yīng'ér zài shuìjiào.

    The baby is sleeping.

    Sentence #359014 from Tatoeba

  2. 我们不在的时候，需要有人照看婴儿。

    Wǒmen bú zài de shíhou, xūyào yǒu rén zhàokàn yīng'ér.

    We need someone to look after the baby while we’re away.

    Sentence #358160 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 安静，否则婴儿会醒来。

    Ānjìng, fǒuzé yīng'ér huì xǐnglái.

    Be quiet, or the baby will wake up.

    Sentence #846256 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 婴儿 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 婴 (yīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
婴yīnginfant
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
  • 女woman · nǚMeaning part
The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿érchild
  • 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 婴儿

婴 11 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

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

Words related to 婴儿

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

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FAQs

婴儿 (yīng’ér) means “baby” or “infant”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yīng’ér: yīng with a 1st tone, then ér with a 2nd 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, 婴儿 is written 嬰兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one baby is 一个婴儿 (yí ge yīng'ér).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinger with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 婴儿 from the suggestions. Typing yinger into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
婴儿 is an HSK 6 word in the 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.