ěr
noun #43,971

Meanings

  1. 1 a pearl or jade earring
  2. 2 a halo or luminous arc beside the sun or moon

Examples

Tā dài zhe yíduì yù ěr.
She wore a pair of jade earrings.
Tiānwénxuéjiā bǎ tàiyang páng de liàng hú jiào rìěr.
Astronomers call the bright arc beside the sun a 'sun ear'.

Tips

usage
originally meant a jade or pearl ear ornament. Modern astronomy reuses it in 日珥, a solar prominence, the glowing loop that hangs off the sun's edge like an earring on the disk.

Components

radical
wáng
jade (left-side form of 玉)
On the left this is the jade radical (the left-side form of ), not 'king'; it marks the word as a jade ornament.
phonetic
ěr
ear
('ear') supplies the sound ěr and also the meaning, a jade worn on the ear, a doubly fitting component.

Stroke Order

ěr