Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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而 ér and yet
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#151
Chapter-11 HSK-A
6 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Erh originally meant whiskers. It is now used as a conjunction, sometimes disjunctive, and also as the pronoun you. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
而
ér
and/as well as/and so/but (not)/yet (not)/(indicates causal relation)/(indicates change of state)/(indicates contrast)