# 嬰兒
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yīng'ér
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ ㄦˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jing$^1$ ji$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): eng-lî / eng-jî
    (Teochew, Peng'im): êng$^1$ ri$^5$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$in-gher
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yīng'ér
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ ㄦˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ying-ér
*** Wade–Giles: ying$^1$-êrh$^2$
*** Yale: yīng-ér
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ingerl
*** Palladius: инъэр (inʺer)
*** Sinological IPA : /iŋ⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jing$^1$ ji$^4$
*** Yale: yīng yìh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jing$^1$ ji$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ying$^1$ yi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɪŋ⁵⁵ jiː²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eng-lî
*** Tâi-lô: ing-lî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: englii
*** IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ li²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ³³ li²⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² li²⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eng-jî
*** Tâi-lô: ing-jî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: engjii
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zi¹³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ zi²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: êng$^1$ ri$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: eng jî
*** Sinological IPA : /eŋ³³⁻²³ d͡zi⁵⁵/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$in-gher
*** MiniDict: in$^平$ r
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$in-hher
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /in⁵⁵ ɦəl²¹/
* Middle Chinese: 'jieng nye
Rime :
| Character | 嬰 | 兒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 日 (38) |
| Final (韻) | 清 (121) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 於盈切 | 汝移切 |
| Baxter | 'jieng | nye |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔiᴇŋ/ | /ȵiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔiɛŋ/ | /ȵiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔiæŋ/ | /ȵʑjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔiajŋ/ | /ȵiə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔiɛŋ/ | /ȵie/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭɛŋ/ | /ȵʑǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔi̯ɛŋ/ | /ȵʑie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yīng | ér |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jing$^1$ | ji$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔeŋ ŋe/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qeŋ ŋje/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 嬰 | 兒 |
| Reading # | 2/2 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yīng | ér |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjieng › | ‹ nye › |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔeŋ/ | /*ŋe/ |
| English | baby | child |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 嬰 | 兒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 2/2 |
| No. | 15336 | 2757 |
| Phonetic component | 賏 | 兒 |
| Rime group | 耕 | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 嬰 | 兒 |
| Old Chinese | /*qeŋ/ | /*ŋje/ |

### Noun

嬰兒
* baby; infant (Classifier: 個／个 m)
    From: Tao Te Ching, 4th century BCE
    Wǒ dú bó xī qí wèi zhào, rú yīng'ér zhī wèi hái. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* (Taoism) lead (metal)
    From: Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West, 16th century CE
    Yīng'ér chànǚ pèi yīnyáng, qiān gǒng xiāngtóu fēn rìyuè. [Pinyin]
    The baby and the girl were married; lead and mercury combined to divide the sun and the moon.

#### Synonyms

* (baby):
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 嬰 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 嬰兒, 嬰孩 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 嬰孩兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 嬰兒, 寶寶 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 嬰兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 娃娃 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 胎娃 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 小毛娃兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 奶娃兒, 奶娃子, 奶娃娃 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 毛頭伢, 毛頭, 毛毛伢, 毛毛, 伢伢 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 嫩娃娃 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Kunming | 小每每, 小咕奶兒 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 小毛娃, 毛娃, 小寶寶 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 蘇蝦仔, 蘇蝦, 𤘅孲仔, BB仔, BB, 阿蝦, 臊妹, 嫩蚊仔 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | BB仔, BB, B, 蘇蝦仔, 蘇蝦, 𤘅孲仔, 蝦仔 |
| Cantonese | Macau | BB仔 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 蘇蝦仔 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 毛蝦 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 蘇蝦仔, BB, BB仔 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 蘇蝦仔, 𤘅孲仔, BB仔, BB |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 蘇蝦 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 毛伢子 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 毛伢崽 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 毛毛仔 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 孲𤘅仔, 孲𤘅 |
| Hakka | Xingning | 孲𤘅哩 |
| Hakka | Huidong (Daling) | 孲𤘅仔 |
| Hakka | Shaoguan (Qujiang) | 孲𤘅子 |
| Hakka | Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) | 嫩仔 |
| Hakka | Changting | 孲𤘅子, 赤蝦子 |
| Hakka | Wuping | 孲𤘅子, 赤蝦子 |
| Hakka | Wuping (Pingyu) | 蝦毛子 |
| Hakka | Liancheng | 孲𤘅子 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 伢人子, 毛伢子 |
| Hakka | Ruijin | 孲𤘅子, 赤蝦子 |
| Hakka | Shicheng | 赤伢 |
| Hakka | Shangyou (Shexi) | 伢毛子 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 孲𤘅仔 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 孲𤘅仔 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 孲𤘅, 孲𤘅仔 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 孲𤘅 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 孲𤘅仔, 孲𤘅 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 阿佅, 嬰仔 |
| Hakka | Hong Kong | 孲𤘅仔 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 細妹 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 小娃娃 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 小娃子 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 𤘅仔 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 兒囝囝 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 嬰仔, 幼囝 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 嬰仔, 幼囝 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 幼囝 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 嬰囝 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 嬰仔, 嬰哥, 紅嬰仔, 紅嬰, 幼囝 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 紅嬰 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 紅嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 紅嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 紅嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 紅嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 紅嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 紅嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 嬰仔, 尾咪, 細囝 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 嬰仔 |
| Southern Min | Guilin (Biyange) | 毛毛崽 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 孥囝 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 伲伲, 阿伲, 阿伲囝, 阿孥, 孥, 擁噯 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Teochew) | anak |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 儂 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 囝, 儂 intimate |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Sanxiang) | 丫囝 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 娃娃 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 小毛頭, 小小囡, 毛毛頭 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 小小囡 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 小毛頭, 毛毛頭, 血泡泡 |
| Wu | Danyang | 小毛毛, 毛毛 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 小毛頭兒, 小毛頭, 毛頭兒, 毛毛頭 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 奶花, 小毛頭, 毛頭奶花, 孲𤘅, 抱手 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 娒兒, 娒娒兒 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 王男 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 毛毛, 毛毛它, 毛它 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 毛毛唧, 毛毛 |
* (lead): 鉛／铅 (qiān)

#### Derived terms

* 嬰兒奶粉／婴儿奶粉
* 嬰兒室／婴儿室
* 嬰兒床／婴儿床 (yīng'érchuáng)
* 嬰兒死亡率／婴儿死亡率 (yīng'ér sǐwánglǜ)
* 嬰兒猝死症／婴儿猝死症 (yīng'ér cùsǐzhèng)
* 嬰兒猝死症候群／婴儿猝死症候群
* 嬰兒車／婴儿车 (yīng'érchē)
* 嬰兒配方奶粉／婴儿配方奶粉 (yīng'ér pèifāng nǎifěn)
* 嬰兒食品／婴儿食品 (yīng'ér shípǐn)
* 試管嬰兒／试管婴儿 (shìguǎn yīng'ér)

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 嬰(えい)児(じ) (eiji)
* → Korean: 영아(嬰兒) (yeong'a)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 嬰 | 兒 |
| えい Hyōgai | じ Jinmeiyō |
| on'yomi ||
For pronunciation and definitions of 嬰兒 – see the following entry. :
| 【嬰児えいじ】 | [noun] baby, infant, newborn Alternative spelling みどりご |
(This term, 嬰兒, is the kyūjitai of the above term.) :