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哪儿

nǎ rdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
where? / wherever / anywhere / somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...? / how could ...?
Sources & editorial notes

Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-a02354352a4cd008. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

哪兒 哪儿 [na3 r5] /where?/wherever; anywhere; somewhere/(used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?/

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Other forms in these source records: 哪兒

  • 哪
    nǎ

    how / which

    na

    (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a] after a word ending in "n")

    né

    used in 哪吒[Né zhā] / Taiwan pr. [nuó]

    něi

    which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

  • 儿
    ér

    child / son

    r

    non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.