刀兒

Chinese

		knife	son; child; diminutive suffix
trad. (刀兒)		刀	兒
simp. (刀儿)		刀	儿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dāor

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠㄦ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dāor
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: daor
    • Wade–Giles: tao¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: dāur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daul
    • Palladius: даор (daor)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taʊ̯ɻʷ⁵⁵/

Etymology 1

Noun

刀兒

1. (Mandarin) Erhua form of 刀 (dāo, “knife”).
2. (Sichuanese, Hangzhounese and Wenzhounese) pocketknife; penknife

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小刀, 刀子
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	刀子, 小刀兒
	Taiwan	小刀
	Harbin	刀子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	刀子, 小刀兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	刀子
	Xi'an	小刀兒, 刀刀兒, 刀刀子, 刀子
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	刀刀子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	刀刀兒, 刀兒
	Wuhan	刀子, 刀
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	刀子, 小刀
	Hefei	小刀子, 小刀
Cantonese	Guangzhou	刀仔
	Hong Kong	刀仔
	Taishan	刀仔
	Dongguan	刀仔
	Yangjiang	刀仔
Gan	Nanchang	刀子
	Lichuan	刀崽
	Pingxiang	小刀仔
Hakka	Meixian	刀仔
Jin	Taiyuan	刀刀, 刀子, 小刀兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	刀仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	刀囝
Southern Min	Xiamen	刀仔, 刀仔囝
	Quanzhou	刀仔
	Zhangzhou	刀仔囝
	Tainan	刀仔 GT
	Chaozhou	刀囝
	Leizhou	刀囝
	Haikou	刀囝
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	刀崽
Wu	Suzhou	小刀
	Hangzhou	刀兒
	Wenzhou	刀兒
Xiang	Changsha	細刀子, 刀子
	Shuangfeng	細刀子
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Dialectal synonyms of 小刀 (“pocketknife; penknife”) [map]

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching of English dollar.

Noun

刀兒

1. (colloquial) dollar