儿戏 (érxì): child's play

Meanings

1 child's play
2 trifling matter

Characters

儿

Examples

这件事可不是儿戏。

Zhè jiàn shì kě bù shì érxì.

This is no child's play.

你把工作当儿戏了吗？

Nǐ bǎ gōngzuò dāng érxì le ma?

Are you treating work as a joke?

Tips

usage

Almost always used in negative contexts to mean 'this is serious, not a game': 不是儿戏, 岂是儿戏, 当成儿戏. Rarely used positively to describe actual child's play.

Stroke Order

儿 ér

戏 xì

Related Words

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child (literary/dialectal) / my child

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drama; play; game / to play; to joke

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child / children

儿 ér #509

child; son / -er (noun suffix) / (adds casual/affectionate tone)

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to act (in a play or film) / to put on an act / to pretend

戏剧 xìjù HSK 5 #4,213

drama; play; theater / theatrical performance

玩儿 wánr HSK 1 #4,130

to play; to have fun

事儿 shìr #893

thing / matter / affair

游戏 yóuxì HSK 3 #578

game / to play (a game)

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childhood / as a child